Top 1200 Turning Point Quotes & Sayings

That song, 'Couldn't Be A Better Player,' was a major turning point in my life.

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?

Education is at a turning point

When KROQ played 'Name,' that was the turning point for us.

The indictment, in a lot of ways, that was the turning point.

The kiss became the narrowed center of the still point of the turning world, so that even the park was turning in comparison to the still peace at their lips.

Let me say that discovering Tagore was the turning point of my life.

There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle.

It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas.

... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.

Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity.

I think at any point in your career as a creative, whether you're an actor, writer whatever it's a real turning point when someone who's not you turns around and validates your work it gives you a lot of confidence.

We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror.

I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

Moving to Turkey was the turning point in my life.

The United States is at a turning point because of a decreasing influence of faith .

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

I'll start searching for that ideal partner when I turn 40. That will be a turning point in my life.

I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.

'Dilbar' is very close to me. It was a turning point in my career.

As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.

If the point of an activity is to be relaxing, changing that point to money isn't a great idea. Then you have to show up for it differently, and that can take the fun out of it, absolutely. I'm a big fan of turning your hobbies into businesses, but not if it's the hobby you do to relax and unplug.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

There is a major turning point in life when you have to decide: shall I grow old gracefully or shall I try everything to stem the tide? For me, that point came in 2001, when I stopped dyeing my hair.

Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into very much a market system.

In my experience, each project is what it is, and nothing is necessarily a turning point.

Make your breaking point your turning point.

...the still point in a turning world.

Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.

Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.

In the course of my life, for more than half a century, June 1989 was the major turning point. Up to that point, I was a member of the first class to enter university when college entrance examinations were reinstated following the Cultural Revolution (Class of '77).

The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.

Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.

The turning point is that moment of naked acceptance of the truth.

We haven't seen the turning point yet, but we're sticking to our bottom line, for the environment and the health of the country.

We are each other's reference point at our turning points.

The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not all it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

I expect a lot of myself. There is no point turning up if you don't think you can win.

I think turning 30 - and same with turning 21, 25, or turning 18 - those are moments in life where something new is expected of you, or you expect something new from yourself.

Al-Maliki is pushing my country to reach a turning point with deeply sectarian dimension.

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.

Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it at all.

I think the important point is the turning point in combining offense and defense in a reasonable way.

Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 6' was the turning point in my career.

The turning point in the life of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis.

'Pink' is the turning point in my career. It just changed everything for me overnight.

A turning point in modern history.

The defection of Hussein Kamel was a turning point in the U.N.-imposed disarmament of Iraq in the 1990s.

Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.

Claims of a decisive 'turning point' in any election are often overblown - more often, such a moment merely crystallizes a change that's been days or weeks in the making. But you can make a real case that Obama's Jefferson-Jackson Day speech is a pivot point in America history.

The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.

I think it is fair to say that 2007 represents a turning point for the Irish economy.

The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.

Selma was the turning point.

How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.

Life is always at some turning point.

Certainly there's a huge appeal to the '60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change, the boiling point. People rebelled against things - the hippies, the feminists, the protesters. All these things just built up and boiled over. I think people can relate to that today.