Turns Quotes

You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.

I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.

Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.

Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.

... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.

A little glitter can turn your whole day around.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around.

This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebuds, giraffes and humans.

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.

Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.

There is no kind of ultimate goal to do something twice as good as anyone else can. It's just to do the job as best you can. If it turns out good, fine. If it doesn't, that's the way it goes.

We turn from the light to see.

Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.

Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.

You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.

GOD became man so that we in our turn may become God.

In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.

It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten.

A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.

Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.

In Cuba and specifically in Havana there's a sort of energy that turns every situation into something unexpected.

Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.

Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.

Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.

Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

You gotta turn with the times, or the times gonna turn on you.

As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again.

Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk.

It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

Read a lot, finding out what kind of writing turns you on, in order to develop a criterion for your own writing. And then trust it-and yourself.

The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.

Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

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.

Witnessing the pain of others is the very least you can do in this world. Its how you know that when your own turn comes, someone will be there with you.

Things turn out better by accident sometimes. But you can't organize accidents.

...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should.

The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Turn your sparring into play - but always play seriously.

It might be hard to believe, but the air in prison is different. There's like one thousand people sucking on the one little piece of fresh air until it turns stale.

The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 A.M.

Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!