Quotes of: Turning Keyword

He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous; yet all the gold in Peru will not buy him the treasure of a well-turned line.

Orlando

The color of the sky was like a length of white chalk turned on its side and rubbed into asphalt. Sanded--that was how the world looked, worked slowly down to no rough edges.

The Other

Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you feeling safe one minute and lost the next.

Peaches

A dog to vomit does turn, A fool to folly but return, The wise err and learn, Gaining from each burn.

PT. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - My Father

The duchess turned on Eugène with one of those insolent stares that envelop a man from head to foot, flatten him out, and leave him at zero.

Père Goriot

Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you you are .

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

She turned back to the reporter, holding out the microphone. “I'm not an expert, I'm a survivor. I hope you can learn how to be one yourself.

Phase One: Identify

A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

She listened to silence. Except the birds. The waves. A few voices in the distance. She would not turn to him. He had to come to her. He HAD to come to her.

Pier Lights

Young children especially need the visual reinforcement of seeing you turn to Scripture for wisdom.

Parenting With Scripture: A Topical Guide for Teachable Moments

Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.

The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

Some people think destiny is something you cannot escape, such as death or a curdled cheesecake, both of which always turn up sooner or later.

The Penultimate Peril

It turns out that you don't end up with the people you love; by definition, you end up with the ones who stay.

The Path of Minor Planets

Like poetry, in times of intense emotion the image returns to me. Like poetry, it stroked my soul and, by turns, lulled and stoked my senses.

The Palace the Palace

It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

Persuasion

If you, free as you are of every weight had stayed below, then that would be as strange as living flame on earth remaining still." And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens.

Paradiso

Turn off the radio, TV, DVD, iPod, computer and cell phone. Then, listen.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope.

The Power of Six

As much as I'm turned on by your buff, sexy body pressing against mine, if you could please roll off of me, I'll get my guns.

Profile of Terror

Financial uncertainty turns some people into misers and others into spendthrifts.

The Real Wizard of Oz: The Life and Times of L. Frank Baum

Perhaps elements like tenacity and humility combine to form a heroic compound.

Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey