Turns Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps.

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

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.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows.

I think they, Peter McCullough was, turns out was not a good CEO.

Sexual liberation, as a slogan, turns out to be another kind of bondage. For a woman it offers orgasm as her ultimate and major fulfillment; it's better than motherhood.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.