Turn Quotes

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.

~ Dolly Parton

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

You shouldn't turn on C-SPAN to get your sports update.

~ Jason Chaffetz

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

~ Peter Ueberroth

There are many people talking about access to space and, 'How can we make that cheaper? How can we turn that into a Southwest Airlines versus the big airlines?'

~ Buzz Aldrin

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.

~ Joshua Slocum

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

~ Kin Hubbard

In order to defend the Chinese race, one must first defend the Confucian culture; and in order to defend the Confucian culture, one must first defend the State. This is because what preserves the race relies upon intelligence, which is in turn nurtured by Confucian education.

~ Zhang Zhidong

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

~ Bill Watterson

When children are exposed to advertisements for unhealthy food, they will, in turn, consume significantly unhealthier rather than healthy calories as a result.

~ Chuck Norris

The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.

~ Chris Chocola

Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

~ Adam Mckay

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

~ Paul Kagame

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

~ Albert Camus

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

~ Herodotus

If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests.

~ Alexander The Great

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

~ Max Lucado

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

~ Carl Jung

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

~ Octavio Paz

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

~ Jim Hightower

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

~ Ralph Nader

When I was little, I'd pick flowers wherever I traveled with my mom, then dry them, cover them with resin, and turn them into paperweights.

~ Ivanka Trump

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.

~ Suze Orman

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

~ Khalil Gibran

The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions exist to enact the will of those marching in the streets.

~ Cynthia P. Schneider

At the Norman Invasion, the Saxon thanes were themselves humbled in turn; the manors were given a more legal character and transferred to favourites of William the Conqueror.

~ Sabine Baring-Gould

America cannot turn its back on the economic future and women-owned businesses are part of that future.

~ Ruben Hinojosa