Turns Quotes

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.

Sometimes I'm really dressed up, and it really turns me on.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.

Shopping turns me off.

You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

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.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

I've been vegan for 15 years, and it turns out it makes a very big impact on the environment to eat fewer animal products, which cause more greenhouse gases than all of transportation combined.

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.