Turns Quotes

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
Mikhail Bakunin

Life, Against, Natural

Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him.
John Podhoretz

Him, Learned, American

LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.
Nicole Kidman

Life, Off, Hold

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.
Francis Quarles

Anger, May, Night

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
Alan Rickman

Good, Working, Knew

I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?
Joyce Maynard

Wanted, Tell, Story

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
Alfred Nobel

Good, Ideas, Satisfied

Christie led the way - with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authentic, the antithesis to what turns off today's voters: flip-flopping politicians who speak in poll-tested platitudes. Yes, he's the anti-Romney.
Ron Fournier

Today, Speak, Off

I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn't stress the actors.
Shahrukh Khan

Stress, Short, Film

I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.
John Mayer

Time, Stupid, Deep

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.
James Hillman

Society, Problem, Wrong

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Lie, Three, Writer

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.
Noam Chomsky

Whatever, Universal, Theory

People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic.
Mehmet Oz

Kids, Weight, Overweight

The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
Francois Rabelais

Moment, Around, Hair

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
Susan Faludi

Health, Women, Single

There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.
Johnny Vegas

Great, Job, Thought

When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.
Annie Leibovitz

Time, Person, Sense

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
E. Stanley Jones

God, Power, Spiritual

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
Jean-Luc Godard

Beauty, Passion, Fashion

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.
Eliot Spitzer

Politics, Sometimes, Wrong

Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.
Thom Yorke

Child, Band, Keeps

Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.
Clarence Thomas

Service, Road, Economy

Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take. Sometimes your films turn out exactly as you want. Sometimes they don't. I spent a lot of my childhood on sets. I think as a joke, my father gave me a line of dialogue in each of his films during the worst moments of my puberty.
Jason Reitman

Father, Career, Made

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.
Bruce Springsteen

Work, Best, Mother

I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.
Betty White

Learned, Whatever, Elephants

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.
Jonathan Sacks

Education, Age, Best

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.
Jonathan Sacks

Religion, Good, Best

Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.
Lewis Thomas

Time, Good, Mistakes

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.
Evan Davis

Funny, Long, Confidence

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