Quotes about turn
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“The kids kept walking, moving through the Henley's halls like a tide, but when Kat turned to leave, she walked in the opposite directions. She wasn't an ordinary kid, after all.
Katarina Bishop followed no one.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“The biggest black eye that you can give the devil is to give God your pain and let Him turn it into gain.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

God, Pain

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

(15 January 1990)

Age, Birth, Memory, Time

“What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to, or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts (2005)

Life

“For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.”

Henry Fielding book The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Source: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Hope, Imagination, Forgiveness

“The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

Source: Palace of Stone

Spring, Light, Night

“Listen, Frank Zhang has moves. He's probably gonna turn into a kangaroo and do some marsupial jujitsu on their ugly faces.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

“Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it…" She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this?”

Scott Westerfeld book Behemoth

Source: Behemoth

Tear, Help, Madness

“Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

“This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods.
Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.”

Lois McMaster Bujold The Curse of Chalion

Source: The Curse of Chalion

God

“I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

Life, Fate, Faith, Thinking

“Sebastian lay a few feet away from her, on his back. There was a great blackened hole across the front of his chest. He turned his head toward her, his face taut and white with pain, and her heart contracted.
His eyes were green.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Pain, Heart

“Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator

Source: Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

“Everybody wants to talk about themselves, and everybody wants to hear everybody else's story, so we take turns playing reporter and celebrity.”

Ryū Murakami (1952) Japanese writer

“About 10 minutes ago, we all woke up because of this strange roaring sound. We all raced toward the sound, which turned out to be the washing machine going back on.
Who knew the rinse cycle could be so scary?”

Susan Beth Pfeffer book Life As We Knew It

Source: Life As We Knew It

“But now, I was beginning to wonder if you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really counts, maybe it's enough- more than enough, even- just to be there.
~Ruby, pg 399”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Variant: If you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really counts, maybe it's enough - more than enough, even - just to be there.
Source: Lock and Key

“He turned to face her again, his late-pretty composure crumbling. "But you're…"

"Pretty? Think again." She smiled. "I'm Tally Youngbood. My mind is very ugly. And I'm taking your car.”

Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer

Smile, Cars, Thinking

“Ari felt like, Hellooo, I have wings! I turn into a wolf! Blending is out is out of the question!”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

Question, Wolf

“People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

Life, People, World, Past

“As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.”

Jodi Picoult Perfect Match

Source: Perfect Match

Heart

“Just because it turned out bad, doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: Stay

“We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

Life, Happiness

“You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound You don't win with a lot of treble.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Context: You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound You don't win with a lot of treble. This isn't about quality. It's about volume. This isn't about music. This is about winning. You stomp the competition with the bass line. You rattle windows. You drop the melody line, and shout the lyrics. You put in foul language and come down hard on each cussword. You dominate. This is really about power.

People, Music

“Down through the years, I turned to the Bible and found in it all that I needed”

Ruth Bell Graham (1920–2007) Congressional Gold Medal recipient

“I can only drive slowly."
"That's all right."
"And I can only do left turns."
Rose ran downstairs, grabbed a road atlas, and ran triumphantly back up again. "Wales is left! Look! It's left all the way!”

Hilary McKay book Saffy's Angel

Source: Saffy's Angel

Way

“It's settled, then," Grace said. She turned back to Nick. "Take the Jag to the car wash and for heaven's sake clean the McDonald's Happy Meal boxes out of it."

"Hey," Nick said, his face offended. "That's a low blow. Those boxes are collectibles.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Night Play

Happiness, Cars, Box

“People have wanted to narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There’ll be tellings as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear one by one like turned-out lights.”

China Miéville book Railsea

Source: Railsea

People, Star, Light

“Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Love, Way, Optimism, Sense

“It isn’t easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed.

-Hephaestus”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

People, Personality

“Anything you don’t understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.”

Carl Sagan book Contact

Source: Contact (1985), Chapter 10 (p. 166)

God, World, Intelligence, Understanding

“No, he wasn't a pig. He was a lonely, hurt man who didn't know how to cope in a world that had turned its back on him. [Astrid]”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

World, Hurt

“I’ll put off readingfor six more years until she turns 18.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“The night crackled… Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Flying, Night

“Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Life

“A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

“Monica's eyes were fierce and fiery, but she didn't move, and after a second she turned and ran up the steps to the second floor, where her formally dressed friends were huddled like the cast of”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Midnight Alley

“Most of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye to the few of us who hunt because they're as hungry as we are for fresh meat as anyone. In fact, they're among our best customers.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything.”

Joyce Carol Oates book First Love: A Gothic Tale

Source: First Love: A Gothic Tale

“If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her 18th birthday, you can get out of bed.”

E. Jean Carroll (1943) American journalist

Variant: If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.

War, Birthday, Inspirational

“Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost”

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author

Love, Help, Personality, Despair

“You have been known to call upon Brother Zachariah for a broken toe.
"It was turning green,” said Will”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Whitechapel Fiend

“Oliver: You turned me down. So why, I wonder, did you decide Amelie would be a better choice?
Claire: She smells better. And she made me cookies.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Midnight Alley

“The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Happiness, People, Feeling, Time

“Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.”

Hugh Nibley (1910–2005) Religious scholar

Source: Approaching Zion

“All this time I'd thought we were strangers, and it turned out we knew each other intuitively, in our bones, in our blood. It was kind of romantic. Catastrophically romantic.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Time

“And although I broke a lot of laws as a teenager, I straightened out immediately upon turning eighteen, when I realized the state had a legal right to execute me.”

George Carlin book Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

Law

“There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.”

Brandon Sanderson The Wheel of Time

Source: A Memory of Light

Time

“All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.”

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

Life

“He was distracted by a giggle, and turned to see a rare sight: a girl.”

Dave Barry book Peter and the Starcatchers

Source: Peter and the Starcatchers

Girl

“At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
"Not necissarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“You do the easy thing, the appealing thing, the peaceful thing, mostly it turns sour in the end. But if you take the hard path - ah, that's how you reap the sweet rewards. Duty. Sacrifice. They mean something.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Peace

“As she turned to concentrate on the portal, Eve tugged on Claire's shirt. "What?"
"Ask him where he got the boots."
"You ask." Personally, Claire wanted the vampire bunny slippers.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Fade Out

Personality

“I swear, sometimes it feels like there's this monkey in my head who runs around turning the dials and changing channels on me. One minute I'm sitting around eating chocolate chip cookies and then all of a sudden I'm thinking about bears.”

Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer

Source: Suicide Notes

Feeling, Thinking, Change

“If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.”

Darren Shan book Birth of a Killer

Source: Birth of a Killer

“Maybe I should add some graffiti to spice it up. For a good time call the Consort. Beast Lord eats your food and turns into a lion in his sleep. Mahon has hemorrhoids. Boudas do it better. Warning, paranoid attack jaguar on the prowl…”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Food, Sleep, Time

“It took turns that people couldn’t foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

People, Understanding, Question

“He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll save him, Meggie!" he wispered in her ear. "I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending. I swear!”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkspell

Happiness

“French is the language that turns dirt into romance.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Time (October 6, 1986)

“So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Katniss Everdeen, p. 5
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)

Learning, Reading, Indifference

“Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead.”

Paula White (1966) American television evangelist

Courage

“You forgot another lesson: Never turn your back until you know your enemy
is dead. Looks like we’ll have to go over the lesson again the next time
I see you—which will be soon.
Love, D.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Love, Time, Dead

“And I had no regrets about the way I turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not about the destination.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Variant: I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about journey, maybe, but not the destination.
Source: Dear John

Way

“The Smiths are singing and someone says "Turn that gay angst music off.”

Bret Easton Ellis The Rules of Attraction

Source: The Rules of Attraction

Music, Singing

“There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.”

Robert Crais (1953) Novelist, screenwriter

Love, World

“People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.”

Scott Westerfeld book Peeps

Source: Peeps

People

“He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

Light, Night

“Then I turned the page and at the top it said THINGS I MISS ABOUT M and there was a list of 15 things, and the first was THE WAY HE HOLDS THINGS. I did not understand how you can miss the way somebody holds things.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

Way, Understanding

“I love you. I love you,
but I’m turning to my verses
and my heart is closing
like a fist.”

Frank O'Hara book Meditations in an Emergency (book)

Source: Meditations in an Emergency

Love, Heart

“Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt”

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Sadness, Hurt, Night

“He looked at her
Something
Turned cancerous
He was in love.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: 1000 Ways to Die

Love

“It turns out I was right.
But nothing has come of it.”

Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer

“no more pep talks about believing in toads," Liza said.
"Don't they turn into princeses when you kiss them?" Bonnie said.
"Thats frogs," Liza Said. "Entirely different species.”

Jennifer Crusie book Bet Me

Source: Bet Me

Kiss

“I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.”

Jodi Picoult book Picture Perfect

Source: Picture Perfect

Sun

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”

Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist

Education, Graduation, Teachers' Day

“If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

Water, Heart

“I looked around, counting the competition. Sixteen. To win, all I had to do was incapacitate each one, place my hand over their hearts and turn my palm into a flame. Easy.
Yeah right.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Alice in Zombieland

Heart

“Only one way to win when you're being chased by someone bigger and tougher than you. Turn straight around, punch their teeth out, and hope the gods are fond of you.”

Scott Lynch book Red Seas Under Red Skies

Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies

God, Hope, Way

“Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

Universe

“By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

“Trust people, until they give you a reason not to. And then never turn your back”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

People

“The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Art

“If anybody felt worse than I did, it was Amos. I had just enough magic to turn myself into a falcon and him into a hamster (hey, I was rushed!)”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“Love turns a heart to crystal… Much more valuable, but much more fragile.”

Neal Shusterman book Everfound

Source: Everfound

Love, Heart

“Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.”

Scott Westerfeld book Specials

Source: Specials

Cry

“If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.”

Robin McKinley book The Hero and the Crown

Source: The Hero and the Crown

Drink, Fish, Water

“Years ago, before this estate was generously and unwillingly turned over to the crown, the lord here was a genuine dimwit. He had a minister stashed behind his throne to whisper clever things to say.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“With me, everything turns into mathematics.”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

Mais apud me omnia fiunt Mathematicè in Natura More closely translated as: but in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically. Note: "Mais" is French for "but" and the "but in my opinion" comes from the context of the original conversation. apud me omnia fiunt Mathematicè in Natura is in latin. Sometimes the Latin version is incorrectly quoted as Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt. Sources: Correspondence with Mersenne http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3aDescartes_-_%C5%92uvres,_%C3%A9d._Adam_et_Tannery,_III.djvu/48 note for line 7 (1640), page 36, Die Wiener Zeit http://books.google.com/books?id=9Xh3fVZLCycC&pg=PA532&lpg=PA532&dq=%22Omnia+apud+me+mathematica+fiunt%22+original+zitat&source=bl&ots=CgQOrveRiM&sig=WFHwIK20r5vRZ66FwCaxo857LCU&hl=de&sa=X&ei=_Wf2UcHlJYbfsgaf1IHABg#v=onepage&q=%22Omnia%20apud%20me%20mathematica%20fiunt%22%20original%20zitat&f=false page 532 (2008); StackExchange Math Q/A Where did Descartes write... http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/454599/where-did-descartes-write-with-me-everything-turns-into-mathematics?noredirect=1#comment978229_454599

Mathematics

“This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Fear, Light

“Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

Forgiveness

“Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar”

Christopher Tolkien (1924–2020) British book editor

Source: The Hobbit

Home, Star

“Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"My Feelings" (p. 179)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

“A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Nature

“She snuggled back under the blanket with me, turned toward me so that she could rest her head on my chest. “I hear your heart,” she said.
“Do you check every once in a while, just to make sure I’m not undead?”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

Heart

“Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don't, it turns gangrenous and kills you…. But sometimes words can break a feeling into pieces.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956) novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist

Source: Queen of Dreams

Feeling, Hurt

“On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

Speech to Conservative Election Rally in Plymouth (22 May, 2001) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=108389 <br class="br">Post-Prime Ministerial

Way, Reading

“Beckendorf, whose legs were now working fine (nothing like being chased by a huge monster to get your body back in order) shook his head and gasped for breath. “You shouldn’t have turned it on! It’s unstable! After a few years, automatons go wild!”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Files

Source: The Demigod Files

“God help me if I ever injure my back," Clayton quipped.
"God help you if you ever turn it," Whitney snapped, "for there'll surely be some heartbroken papa or cuckolded husband ready with a knife--if I don't murder you first.”

Judith McNaught book Whitney, My Love

Source: Whitney, My Love

God, Help

“Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Hate, Fate, Learning, Time