Turns Quotes

Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.

Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.

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.

It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I do that. I don't mean to. I don't hate men that much. But it turns out so well!

A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.

We usually break our records every Monday, so we'll see what turns up tonight after midnight. Next month it'll probably be higher, which is always weird.

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

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.

Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.

But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

He's a threat to win until his brain turns to tapioca.

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.