Turning Quotes

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
Mahatma Gandhi

Faith, Experience, Rich

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot

Poetry, Means, Emotions

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Napoleon Hill

Life, Mind, Energy

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Tony Robbins

Step, Goals, Invisible

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.
Eminem

Dream, Almost, Nightmare

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.
Barack Obama

Stop, Head, Hitting

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
William Penn

Time, Death, Eternity

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.
Barack Obama

Keep, Social, Security

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
Max Lerner

Strength, Hurt, Point

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
Milton Friedman

Freedom, Friend, Liberty

This lady is not for turning.
Margaret Thatcher

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
Charles Spurgeon

God, Children, Word

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Richard Dawkins

Religion, Time, Power

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Work, God, Evil

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
Ted Hughes

Good, Yourself, Self

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
Isaac Asimov

Men, Number, Pregnant

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
Barry Goldwater

Wife, Him, Trying

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.
Jim Carrey

Mean, Strange, Year

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley

Loyalty, Down, Before

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
Gloria Steinem

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.
Taylor Swift

Through, Wish, Alcohol

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
Franz Kafka

Point, Longer, Onward

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
Mel Brooks

Mistakes, Long, Gonna

I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.
Richard Dawkins

Fact, Looking, Read

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
William Hazlitt

Tired, Everything, Others

Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
Dave Winfield

Time, Successful, Stress

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
Bill Watterson

Future, Problem, Present

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.
John Kenneth Galbraith

American, Off, Boredom

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
Flannery O'Connor

Deserve, Tongue, Credit

There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.
Deepak Chopra

Good, Bad, Around

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