The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it's like turning 50, I can't wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery.
I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.
Mitchell Stephens: Well, enough rage and helplessness and your love turns to something else. Alison: What... does it turn to? Mitchell Stephens: It turns to steaming piss.
I turn sentences around. That’s my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around...
A wheel that turns gathers no rust.
Necessity turns lion into fox.
Marriages are not as they are made, but as they turn out.
Snakes turn milk into poison.
History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.
The indictment, in a lot of ways, that was the turning point.
I don't believe in right-angled turning points.
No Difference Small as a peanut, Big as a giant, We're all the same size When we turn off the light. Rich as a sultan, Poor as a mite, We're all worth the same When we turn off the light. Red, black or orange, Yellow or white, We all look the same Wh...
One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
I stamped, certified, and lipsticked my life in a package sent through Priority Mail directly to the devil herself...and there's no turning back.
We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to Hi...
All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.
Life is always at some turning point.
