World Turns Quotes

Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the
holocaust
The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments. — Robert Pinsky

When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy. — Ray Davies

The world turns, that's all. You can hold on and turn with it, or stand up to protest and be spun right off. — Stephen King

Every 24 hours the world turns over on someone who was sitting on top of it. — Sparky Anderson

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless. — Henry A. Kissinger

The woman I love burns with jealousy, leaps to conclusions, cries, and turns to ice ... but when she laughs ... the world is mine. — Rumiko Takahashi

The world turns out its pockets for you, boy. — Maggie Stiefvater

You can make the best show in the world, but if people don't actually turn it on and see it, they'll never know it's the best show. — Miranda Otto

The mundanes put their faith in their paper money, and when that turns to ash, the world will turn upside down. — Cassandra Clare

The world is mine and it turns in my fingers. — K.R. Rowe

One time you take a hundred thousand dollars and let a vampire go, the whole world turns on you like you're some kind of bad guy. — Christopher Moore

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other. — Denis Diderot

Weltanschaung as Ennui [10w]
When world-view turns to world-weariness,
we see staleness in everything. — Beryl Dov

Fang is not the huggiest person in the world - he turns into an unbending statue, and you just have to do the best you can. Which — James Patterson

This is the thin time, when the beloved dead draw near. The world turns inward, and the chilling air grows thick with dreams and mystery. — Diana Gabaldon

Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God
what? perhaps a "world"? — Friedrich Nietzsche

Better that the whole world should turn against you ... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you. — Guy Finley

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! — Louise Bogan

The world turns upside down every day. — Laurie Halse Anderson

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men. — Victor Hugo

When the world turns its back on you, for God's sake, don't get discouraged. — Veronika Carnaby

I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which. — Robert Sheckley

God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty. — John Of The Cross

the cat unsheathes its claws
the world turns — Sylvia Plath

From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not. — Laozi

He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life. — Charles Spurgeon

It turns out you have to be an apprentice in this world. — Cheryl Strayed

The world turns gray, the air grows cool, the fog blows in. Only at evening can you really value home. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, your improve your world. — Joe Vitale

Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history. — Oliver

Whenever I think of this attack, my stomach turns over. — Adolf Hitler

Even if the whole world turns their back on you, you will always have yourself. — Lady Gaga

In wartime, everyone's birthday turns into a commemoration of something so sad. — Danny M. Cohen

I'd like to turn the whole world on just for a moment. Just for a moment. — Edie Sedgwick

Show me a man who longs to live a day beyond his time who turns his back on a decent length of life, I'll show the world a man who clings to folly. — Sophocles

Blue doesn't desbribe loss. Grief robs the world of color. Turns it heavy and gray. — Ellery Adams

In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison. — Theodor W. Adorno

I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion. — John Green

So India's problem turns out to be the world's problem. What happened in India has happened in God's name.
The problem's name is God. — Salman Rushdie

The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it. — Spider Robinson

Grace easily turns to hyper-grace in a world that has lost its view of God's throne room and a biblical theology of sin. — James MacDonald

Genius is the ability to see the self-evident where the rest of the world turns blind. — Kedar Joshi

Money rules the world, and doubtless also, here and there, the bit of love within it, and when love turns to hate, one remembers unpaid board. — Robert Walser

This is one symptom of the deliria no one ever tells you about: Apparently the disease turns you into a world-class liar. — Lauren Oliver

Today is a day when the world turns out to be flat. — Ava Dellaira

It turns out, teachers think of glitter as the herpes of craft world- impossible to contain or exterminate. (Beer Buckets and Baby Jesus) — Myra McEntire

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going. — David Starr Jordan

[The writer] has to be the kind of man who turns the world upside down and says, lookit, it looks different, doesn't it? — Morris L. West

When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos. — Charlie Jane Anders

The wheel turns. Blue above, green below, we wander a long way, but love is what the cup of our soul contains when we leave the world and the flesh. — Louise Murphy

The world turns because Man is inspired to better himself — Wayne Wignall

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not. — Abraham Verghese

The wheel of ka turns and the world moves on. — Stephen King

The world turns. And it turns. And it moves and you don't. You're still here. — Jez Butterworth

But as the world turns I learned life is Hell / Living in the world, no different from a cell — Inspectah Deck

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place. — Paulo Coelho

A girl's gotta get her glam on when the world turns its back on her. — Melissa Landers

Women are the pivot round which the world turns. — Leo Tolstoy

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. — James A. Garfield

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic. — John Ruskin

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own. — Heraclitus

Even when the world throws it worst and then turns in its back, there is still always hope — Pittacus Lore

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. — William Shakespeare

Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend. — Rumi

'As the World Turns' was such a great experience and such a great school for me. It was better than any class I could have ever taken. — Alexandra Chando

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek. — Al-Waleed Bin Talal

The world, more suffering than sinning, turns toward Pope Francis as in a conversation people turn to the person who is making sense of things. — Eugene Kennedy

Poetry is what he turns to these days, finding in its fragmentation the proper echo of the disintegrating world. — Lauren Groff

It turns out that trying to ignore somebody is about the most, exhausting thing in the world. — Sarina Bowen

The world turns softly / Not to spill its lakes and rivers. — Hilda Conkling

You're not completely alone, you have me! Even if the entire world turns its back on you, you'll still be the strongest as long as you have me! — Kyo Shirodaira

We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite. — P. J. O'Rourke

Reading is almost exactly like a cartwheel; it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless — Katherine Rundell

Lower your gaze from the world and turn your heart away from it ... — Umar

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Learning about ourselves is rather inconvenient because it turns the world we live in upside down. — Peter Kingsley

The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected. — Harry Browne

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine. — Andrew Forrest

For Chelsea, I would turn down every job in the world. — Jose Mourinho

Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world. — Helen Fisher

The world turns, and life changes, the good old days are fantasies-just screened memories. — Howard Chaykin

Welcome to the world of the nesting instinct, where Mother Nature turns pregnant women into frenzied cleaning machines ahead of the new arrival. — Mark Woods

Though a man hath the best eyes in the world, he cannot see any way but that which he turns them. — Joseph Butler

As soon as the people fix one Shame of the World, another turns up. — E.W. Howe

The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being. — Lewis H. Lapham