Top 525 Turning Quotes

Instead of making people victims of people who are successful, we should be telling people, ‘Look, you are having a hard time, I feel bad for you. Let’s look at what you’re doing, let’s teach you how to succeed. Let’s give you the tools to succeed as opposed to turning everybody into victims.

My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.

I think that turning on the charm without being fake is really important.

Breaking Bad’ gave me a career. It gave me more work than I could possibly imagine – I started filming it when I was 14 years old, and I finished when I was turning 21.

Give your subconscious a chance to work by turning your brain off from time to time. Don’t focus on work or solving problems constantly.

The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?

I remember, in fifth grade, doing a report on the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin as a rap. It was just an easy way to get an A back then because everyone was turning in boring stuff.

Arranged marriages are big business in the U.K. Second- and third-generation immigrant families, with no extended family structure, limited networks and religious restrictions on acceptable ways to meet future spouses, are turning to external matchmakers for help.

I’ve always been frightened of turning thirty.

The FSB’s invisible presence continued; the agency became an intangible part of my Moscow life – sometimes loudly, sometimes quietly, with someone in a back room clearly turning the volume of minor persecution up and down.

I played with the likes of Kelly Smith, Rachel Yankey, and Fara Williams – all these great players. Everybody knew who they were, and I was turning into one of these girls who were always my heroes.

I inherited the old family turkey farm, and I’m turning it into a fun place to go for my kids.

When I was around 12 or so, I saw ‘The Shining.’ I just remember that being a turning point for me, where I started to think about the fact that there was a hand behind the film. That it wasn’t just this magical story being told – there were actual people crafting these films, and they were works of art.

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.

A dead tree, cut into planks and read from one end to the other, is a kind of line graph, with dates down one side and height along the other, as if trees, like mathematicians, had found a way of turning time into form.

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

I’ve started doing yoga and meditation, but I’m not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

It’s the only way I think I’m ever going to walk away from the game, is to go ahead and say I’m going to, and then I’ve got to. There’s no turning back now – win, lose or draw.

I think that first-person shooter is a stable genre that’s going to be here forever, just like there are going to be driving games forever. There’s something just intrinsically rewarding about turning around a corner and shooting at something.

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.

International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the age of blood feuds. World leaders are expected to lead in turning threats into opportunities.

You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, ‘the ability to conceive failure as progress.’

I don’t need arms, and neither does anyone else… At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.

I knew I’d never make it back to the major leagues as a player. Lee MacPhail came to me and asked if I wanted to manage the Yankees’ Fort Lauderdale club. I thought about it for a day or two and decided to take the job. That was the turning point. I knew it was what I wanted to do.

The more I come to recognize my story’s place in God’s grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term – a century-long – error by Europe.

It’s very embarrassing to talk of your own work before shooting for it and even before it is released. I have been a witness to many of our actors turning red-faced after their films release. I’d rather not be there.

I found an agent midway through my year-long run at ‘Grease’ and just started to audition. I fortunately booked ‘South Pacific’ six months after ‘Grease’ was over, and I feel like that was a huge turning point in legitimizing myself in the Broadway community, and getting to do that was absolutely amazing.

We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don’t understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that’s one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.

People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal – which was only two days after sealing the book deal – but I was really quite terrified.

I started by writing short stories, but they weren’t very good; I tried them on various magazines, and none of them was published. People were nicer then about turning you down, and so I didn’t lose heart – I kept on writing and wrote a lot of books, one or two of which I finished, and others I didn’t.

The consequences of turning a blind eye to government corruption go far beyond simply letting some corrupt politicians and bureaucrats walk free.

At that moment Mr. Clifford, quite unconscious that he and his most personal feelings and aspirations were subjects of discussion, was turning from the main road into the lower road.

I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there.

If you are playing on a turning wicket, toss plays an important role. The team that wins the toss gets an opportunity to play on the fresh wicket. You should always prepare the wicket as per team’s strength. But a rank turner might backfire.

In real life, that’s how we’re moving around. We look at things while we’re walking and moving and turning around. We stare at objects in the world.

I left school early in my last year before I took my A-levels. I wasn’t expelled. It was just a mutual understanding. I wasn’t interested in going to school and they said, ‘You’re not turning up,’ so we severed ties. Both sides appreciated it.

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

On that Sunday of the Masters I remember turning on ESPN to find people talking about me. I switched over to the Golf Channel and people were talking about me. It was hard to escape.

When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?

I had a standup act, and I ended up turning it into something that was really watered down and accessible. Something that went from scary and threatening to something that was almost to the point of being corny.

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

After the situation with Kursk submarine, I started looking at Mr. Berezovsky in a completely different way. For me, it was a turning point in our relationship. I think that he took a completely dishonorable position.

At a time when this country needs a good military, the last thing we need to be doing is turning out of our military of people who served and then bringing in people who are illegally in the country.

I read Pamela Colloff’s oral history about the campus shooting, ’96 Minutes,’ when it was first published, and my wheels immediately starting turning toward making a film and making it an animated re-telling.