I Quotes
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“It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.”
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“It turned out to be a war which, unfortunately for Comrade Pillai, would end almost before it began. Victory was gifted to him wrapped and beribboned, on a silver tray. Only then, when it was too late, and Paradise Pickles slumped softly to the floor without so much as a murmur or even the pretense of resistance, did Comrade Pillai realize that what he really needed was the process of war more than the outcome of victory. War could have been the stallion that he rode, part of, if not all, the way to the Legislative Assembly, whereas victory left him no better off than when he started out.
He broke the eggs but burned the omelette.”
Source: The God of Small Things
“It turned out to be a young Dasypus novemcinctus, a nine-banded armadillo, about the size of a small loaf of bread. Although they were becoming more common in Texas, I'd never seen one up close before. Anatomically speaking, it resembled the unhappy melding of an anteater (the face), a mule (the ears), and a tortoise (the carapace). I thought it overall an unlucky creature in the looks department, but Granddaddy once said that to apply a human definition of beauty to an animal that had managed to thrive for millions of years was both unscientific and foolish.”
Source: The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate
“It turned out to be impossible for me to 'run away' in the sense other American teenagers did. Any movement at all was taken for progress in my family.”
Source: The Liars' Club: A Memoir (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“It turned out, when pretty tall, pretty handsome boys needed to shave they became less "pretty" and more...handsome.”
Source: Not If I Save You First
“It turns me on when you're armed with something sharp.'
'There's something so entirely wrong with you.'
He came around to my front. 'But you like what's wrong with me.'
'There is something wrong with me, too,' I looked up at him. 'Because I do.'
'I know.' He touched my cheek. 'I've always known you like that I enjoy when you make me bleed.”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“It turns out - this is a metaphor out of [Charles] Dickens - that the raw sewage emptied into the Anacostia comes from the Federal Triangle. I have a sewer map, and on it you can see the pipe from which congressional wastes empty into the river that then flows through the black neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. It is very expensive to do anything about the river, but somebody's working on it.”
“It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll; it's a cultural shift.”
“It turns out a VAT - a value-added tax - is a very easy tax to collect and a very hard tax to evade. It's a really good idea. It was invented about 60 years ago in France, of course. Because they're so good at taxing. They had a business tax that was easy to evade, and the head of the French IRS invented this value-added tax, which is very hard to evade.”
“It turns out, after a lot of exploration, that I'm not really a princess. A swell gal, sure, but not a princess.”
Source: Please Excuse My Daughter: A Memoir
“It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country.”
“It turns out dentists don't like it very much when you show up for a cleaning in full vampire gear.”
“It turns out Dimitri had a friend, who had a friend, and despite the best security in the Moroi world, we managed to get into the Court's prison facilities.”
Source: Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel
“It turns out Dungeons & Dragons is much better on paper than it is in reality.”
“It turns out Enron workers were not only shredding documents at work, they were having sex at work. Having sex and shredding documents. Those are two things you don't want to get mixed up.”
“It turns out happiness does come in relationship with the right guy.
I found my Prince Charming in Jesus, my very own freedom fighter, supernatural life coach, and Prince of Peace. He comes through every time, saves me because He can’t not. That’s His nature. And I’ve peeked ahead to the end of the story. The Bible says He’s coming back to get us, riding on a white horse; no wonder that makes my heart skip a beat.”
Source: Mary Me: One Woman’s Incredible Adventure with God
“It turns out, Holder doesn’t have an issue with Mormons at all. He just has an issue with assholes.”
Source: Hopeless
“It turns out horrendous when you choose the wrong options.”
“It turns out I had this huge geeky safety net out there that I didn’t know about this whole time, made up of people who have been reading my comic for nine years but never contacted me.”
“It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.”
“It turns out I was right.
But nothing has come of it.”
“It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.”
Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
“It turns out I'm absolutely terrible at staying away from you. It's a very serious problem.”
Source: The Elite
“It turns out inconvenience was a really important part of our lives, and we didn't realize it.”
“It turns out it’s not only time that heals all wounds,” said Blu.
“And what else does?”
“Comfort.”
Source: Crocodile Tears
“It turns out it takes 30 years for a new idea to seep into the culture. Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the options and opportunities presented by technology that drives change.”
“It turns out most of the conclusions that I've come to in life have equally valid contradictions. I think it's true you need to make a plan, set a goal and stick to it, but I would also advise: Don't keep your eyes so fixed on your goal that you miss what sneaks up to surprise you, because magic will come from unexpected places.”
“It turns out nudity is not a problem for me. It’s one of those things you think about later and say, ‘Yeah, I could do this for a living.’”
“It turns out poetry does, in fact, do the thing I want it to do… it helps me return to the world, to experience it, to pay attention.”
“It turns out she is Canadian, my editor, and so she drinks like a fish. So she wasn't a lightweight at all. And in the morning, she said that the idea still seemed like a good one, and here we are.”
“It turns out Superman is weak to Kryptonite and horses.”
“It turns out that a husband who does the laundry, it's very romantic when you're older. And it's hard to believe when you're younger. But it's absolutely true.”
“It turns out that a lot of women just have a problem with women in power. You know, this whole sisterhood, this whole let's go march for women's rights and, you know, just constantly talking about what women look like or what they wear, or making fun of their choices or presuming that they're not as powerful as the men around. This presumptive negativity about women in power I think is very unfortunate, because let's just try to access that and have a conversation about it, rather than a confrontation about it.”
“It turns out that about 3 per cent of the human population need on average two hours' less sleep a night than the rest of us. Let's call them the super-awake. And another 3 per cent of the population are the super-sleepers, who need an extra two hours' sleep to function normally. And the average person? We need about seven to nine hours a night to be at our superhero best.”
Source: On Sleep
“It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics. Why? Because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth. We know that investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase growth. They increase good jobs, and they create new wealth for all of us.”
“It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.”
“It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.”
“It turns out that conservationism can be fun, with the news that the Norwegian red king crab - which weighs in at an impressive full kilo of juicy crabby goodness per shell - must be eaten as much as possible, because it's scoffing all the other fish in Norway. In fact, it would be remiss of all of us if we didn't eat as many of these buggers as we possible can every week because they now provide a genuine ecological threat to fellow marine life. So, c'mon vegetarians. Let's see how much you really care about the environment.”
“It turns out that creativity isn’t some rare gift to be enjoyed by the lucky few—it’s a natural part of human thinking and behavior. In too many of us it gets blocked. But it can be unblocked. And unblocking that creative spark can have far-reaching implications for yourself, your organization, and your community.”
Source: Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
“It turns out that doing the right thing, treating people right, is also the right thing for the company.”
“It turns out that dopamine is a chemical on double duty in the brain. Along with its role in motor commands, it also serves as the main messenger in the reward systems, guiding a person toward food, drink, mates, and all things useful for survival. Because of its role in the reward system, imbalances in dopamine can trigger gambling, overeating, and drug addiction - behaviors that result from a reward system gone awry.”
Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.”
“It turns out that having a best friend during adolescence is an important part of becoming a well-adjusted adult. Those without one are more likely to be bullied and marginalized and to carry these experiences into becoming disagreeable adults.”
Source: The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
“It turns out that home is not mostly a place. Home is someone putting her arms around you and saying the words your heart longs to hear: always and everywhere.”
Source: Cloud and Wallfish
“It turns out that human beings are hard-wired to have conversations impact them in such profound and significant ways that it can actually turn genes on and off. That's a core, fascinating challenge for all of us and insight.”
“It turns out that hyperbolic structures are very common in nature, and the place where lots of people encounter them is coral reefs. Sea slugs, and a lot of other organisms with frilly forms, are biological manifestations of hyperbolic geometry, which is also found in the structure of lettuce leaves and kales, and some species of cactus.”
“It turns out that I learned something from my dear old dad after all: firemen are experts at getting into places they shouldn't be.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“It turns out that I'm far too schizophrenic musically for people to categorize me. I think people judge me a lot before they ever really know who I am.”
“It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To be what they call 'middle-of-the-road' in most cases just means you have a hard time figuring out who between options is dumber. So quite often those who refused to decide were, after all, the bold individuals, the influential ones, the creative ones, those who snatched their own authority.”
Source: Killosophy
“It turns out that information leaks between universes at the quantum level. We think it accounts for all kinds of phenomena, from what drives evolution to strange insights and mystical experiences through the ages. The machine was built as an attempt to investigate and amplify them.”
Source: Paths to Otherwhere