turning quotes

   Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

-Bible (NewTestament)
James1:17.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.

- Cyril Vernon Connolly
  The Unquiet Grave, pt.1.

To those who wait with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say. You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning. See Fry 340:25.

- Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness Thatcher
  Address to the Conservative Party Conference.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. SeeAchebe 2:18.

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
  'The Second Coming', l.1^8. Collected in Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921).