Turning Quotes - page 25

I am inclined to think that nothing could matter more than what people love. At any rate, I can think of no value that I would place higher. I would not want to live in a world without love. Would a world with peace, but without love, be a better world? Not if the peace was achieved by drugging the love (and hate) out of us, or by suppression. Would a world with justice and freedom, but without love, be a better world? Not if it was achieved by somehow turning us all into loveless law-abiders with none of the yearnings or envies or hatreds that are wellsprings of injustice and subjugation. (Daniel Dennett)
Have you killed anyone?” she asked quickly. "What? Did you miss what I said, about turning murder into an art form?” "But you haven't actually killed anyone yet, have you? I read your file.” He glowered. "Technically, yeah, all right, maybe I haven't. View quote
Derek Landy
The pair of them were staring at the computer screen like two dogs watching animal planet: very focused, but incapable of turning up the volume or changing the channel. -Manny and Butch. View quote
J.R. Ward
I didn't know love felt like this, like turning into brightness. View quote
Jandy Nelson
The fact is, we need markers in life, whether we subscribe to a religion or not. And the major holidays, such as Christmas, serve to remind us of the turning world. View quote
Jay Parini
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure. View quote
James Altucher
One of the turning points in the look of the Guardian is when we decided Logan Thackeray would be a Guardian as opposed to a Warrior. Logan's own protective nature and the fact that the humans have been knocked back into defensive positions informed a lot of what the Guardian became. View quote
Jeff Grubb
I've seriously got to stop turning my girlfriends gay, but like I can really help it. It's my animal appeal. View quote
Gena Showalter
You will stop turning to food when you start understanding in your body, not just your mind, that there is something better...Truth, not force, does the work of ending compulsive eating. View quote
Geneen Roth
Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30. View quote
John Cusack
Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy. (John Piper)
Evil – to exploit the knowledge of your own vulnerability by turning it on others' vulnerability in order to bring more pain into the world. View quote
Jordan Peterson
That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters. View quote
George Saunders
Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning. View quote
Joseph O'Connor
You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted. View quote
Dee Brown
Throughout the 20th century, we created wealth through vertically integrated corporations. Now, we create wealth through networks. We are at a turning point in human history, where the industrial age has finally run out of gas. View quote
Don Tapscott
By turning every Yahoo search box into a Bing box, Microsoft may have bought itself the exposure it needs to be the next Google. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
He had that hungry mind, constantly turning things over, looking not for answers but for understanding. View quote
E. Lockhart
The claim that every man kills the thing he loves seemed to him a wild guess compared with the near certainty of a man turning into the thing he hates. View quote
Edward St Aubyn
... what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find? View quote
Elizabeth Kostova
When we seek the gaze of another, it isn't always our partner we're turning away from, but the person we have ourselves become. (Esther Perel)
I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off. View quote
Cara Delevingne
When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost. View quote
Karin Slaughter
I am not interested in being a Barbie doll and turning myself into a sausage for the next 20 years. I want to follow actresses like Helen Mirren and Judi Dench who have lines on their faces and aren't afraid of playing their age. View quote
Kim Cattrall
Memories, so sweet and bitter.. they had both nourished and devoured him for so many years. Until a time came when they began to fade, turning faint and blurred, only an ache to be quickly pushed away because it went to your heart. For what was the use of remembering all you had lost? View quote
Cornelia Funke