quotes about Turns
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You can't turn the ball over and expect to win.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there's no one else to turn to / you can call on each other / and count on each other ... / because each other / is all you have.
-- Adele Faber -
When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
-- Ahmet Zappa -
Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
-- Aisha Tyler -
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I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
-- Alan Rickman -
It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.
-- Alan Watts -
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
-- Albert Camus -
LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.
-- Albert HofmannSource : "LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?". www.wired.com. January 16, 2006.
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Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.
-- Alec Baldwin -
Only an extraordinary person can turn opportunity into reality.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
I never have a problem with finding material. I wait for it to turn up, and it always turns up. It’s dealing with the material I’m inundated with that poses the problem.
-- Alice Munro -
Time is an amazing enigma in which seeds that were planted can turn into a vibrant garden if properly pruned.
-- Alyssa Milano -
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It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.
-- Amish TripathiSource : Amish Tripathi (2015). “The Shiva Trilogy: Omnibus”, p.661, Hachette UK
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Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.
-- Anais Nin -
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If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.
-- Anastas MikoyanSource : "MAYDAY: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair" by Michael R. Beschloss, (p. 42), 1986.
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I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope
-- Andrew Flintoff -
The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.
-- Anita Desai -
You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.
-- Ann Brashares -
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Girls who lead turn in to women who thrive.
-- Anna Maria Chavez -
And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
-- Anne Lamott -
One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
You just have to try and keep on grinding and hope that things will turn around eventually.
-- Annika Sorenstam -
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There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.
-- Anthony Anderson -
I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.
-- Antonio Gramsci -
If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
-- Aristotle -
You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
-- Arnold Bennett -
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Old stories often turn out to be true.
-- Arthur MachenSource : Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.1201, Delphi Classics
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Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into
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Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
The minute you learn something, turn around and teach it to others.
-- Austin KleonSource : Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.117, Workman Publishing
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I don't turn to anyone for advice. I do what I want.
-- Azealia BanksSource : "Azealia Banks has a crush on Barack Obama and would 'tone it down' for the right man" by Alistair McGeorge, www.mirror.co.uk. April 3, 2015.
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Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
-- Barack Obama -
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I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.
-- Barbara Brown Taylor -
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
A little glitter can turn your whole day around.
-- Barbara ParkSource : Barbara Park (2003). “Junie B., first grader: shipwrecked”
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It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
-- Barry MannSource : "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
-- Barry Sanders -
All words and sayings gently turn, returning to the self.
-- Bassui TokushoSource : Bassui Tokusho (2013). “Mud and Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui”, p.112, Simon and Schuster
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It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
-- Ben HorowitzSource : "The Hard Thing About Hard Things". Book by Ben Horowitz, March 4, 2014.
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I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
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Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.
-- Betty White -
Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.
-- Bill Frist -
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I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.
-- Bob Ross -
What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle.
-- Brenda Shoshanna -
I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.
-- Brett Ratner -
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Turn your sparring into play - but always play seriously.
-- Bruce Lee -
And sometimes the question that you pose or the project that you start yourself turns into something else, you know, but at least it gets you started.
-- Bruce Nauman -
God's power under us, in us, surging through us, is exactly what turns dependence into unforgettable experiences of completeness.
-- Bruce WilkinsonSource : Bruce Wilkinson (2010). “The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life”, p.53, Multnomah
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The Work always leaves you with less of a story. Who would you be without your story? You never know until you inquire. There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you. Turn it around; undo it. You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.
-- Byron Katie -
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There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
-- C. S. Lewis -
When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.
-- Caity Lotz -
When you want to turn around a company, you want to make sure that the solution is coming from inside.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
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I like in books when we start the book and you really don't know how it's going to turn out.
-- Cassandra Clare -
But it turns out that even if I don’t talk a lot, when it’s something that matters I still have a lot to say.
-- Catherine Gilbert MurdockSource : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2007). “Dairy Queen”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Daisy chains are pretty fragile, and it turns out that families are too.
-- Cathy Cassidy -
With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
-- Charles Churchill -
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things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up
-- Charles Dickens -
Remember the street car cannot turn out.
-- Charles Melville Hays -
Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns
-- Charles SimeonSource : Charles Simeon (1833). “Horae Homileticae: Or Discourses (principally in the Form of Skeletons) Now First Digested Into One Continued Series, and Forming a Commentary Upon Every Book of the Old and New Testament; to which is Annexed, an Improved Edition of a Translation of Claude's Essay on the Composition of a Sermon: In Twenty-one Volumes. Galatians-Ephesians”, p.13
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How many times can summer turn to fall in one life?
-- Charles WrightSource : Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.54, Macmillan
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The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.
-- Charlotte Gainsbourg -
Children don't get cheaper when they turn six.
-- Chris BowenSource : Source: www.abc.net.au
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At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.
-- Chris CleaveSource : Chris Cleave (2009). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.228, Simon and Schuster
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I wasn’t destined to be an astronaut. I had to turn myself into one.
-- Chris Hadfield -
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Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.
-- Chris Murray -
Let's turn to the West, Let's turn up the music, Let's hope it's always as good as this
-- Chris Pureka -
You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules. --Abbey Drake
-- Christine Feehan -
We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.
-- Christopher McCandlessSource : Letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992.
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In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.
-- Christopher Plummer -
What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.
-- Chubby Checker -
People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
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I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.
-- Claire KeeganSource : Claire Keegan (2010). “Foster”, p.11, Faber & Faber
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All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.
-- Clive JamesSource : Clive James (2009). “May Week Was In June”, p.204, Pan Macmillan
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I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.
-- Colin Baker -
If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.
-- Colin Baker -
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Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.
-- Colin McRae -
I’m the only one that can be held accountable for the way my life turns out.
-- Colleen Hoover -
You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go
-- Confucius -
I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.
-- Corazon AquinoSource : "Sunday Interview -- Corazon Aquino/ The former president of the Philippines reflects on losing a husband to the cause they believed in, the revolution that later swept her to power and the difficulties of ruling in a democracy". Interview With Benjamin Pimentel, www.sfgate.com. February 18, 1996.
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A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.
-- Craig Ferguson -
Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.
-- Curtis Armstrong -
I can take anyone down at anytime; they can't take me down; no one can ride or turn me; I can control anyone.
-- Dan Gable -
But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.
-- Dan Gable -
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Turn the lights down, the party just got wilder.
-- Dan Rather -
We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it.
-- Daniel Gilbert -
The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.
-- Daniel HandlerSource : Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.16, Egmont UK
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When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
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All I had was persistence. Turns out that's all you need...
-- Darren LaCroix -
Turns out, not where, but who you're with that really matters.
-- Dave MatthewsSource : "Song: "The Best Of What's Around" ("Under the Table and Dreaming")". September 27, 1994.
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When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown
-- Dave Parker -