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I don't believe in right-angled turning points. -- Timothy West
My life is one long curve, full of turning points. -- Pierre Trudeau
What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different. -- Hilary Mantel
I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6. -- Nadia Comaneci
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. -- Stephen Ambrose
I start with the history, and I ask myself, 'What are the great turning points? What are the big dramatic scenes that are essential to telling the story?' -- Ken Follett
Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means. -- Arthur Koestler
I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever. -- Tana French
I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin. -- Thandie Newton
Harper Collins gave me a letter of intent saying that they want me to pen down my autobiography. When I was recollecting the incidents of my life for that, I selected only those incidents which were turning points in my life. I staged it instead of writing it. -- Anupam Kher
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. -- Jeff Grubb
Every war has turning points and every person too. -- Meg Rosoff
We are each other's reference point at our turning points. -- Elizabeth Fishel
Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established -- George Soros
One of the turning points of my life was when I got my first bait-casting outfit. -- Jimmy Carter
Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras. -- Jeremy Rifkin
...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison. -- Oscar Wilde
Peter Tertzakian's analysis of world oil is a fascinating reminder that history often foretells the major turning points of the future. -- Gwyn Morgan
There are turning points in everyone's life when we have to fight, even if we have to do it by ourselves and in public. -- Junius Williams
There are surprising turning points; there is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and you never know if your action could be the straw. -- Frances Moore LappÃ©
It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways. -- Napoleon Hill
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved. -- George Washington
But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth...transitions are key times in the natural process of self-renewal -- William Bridges
Turning points in my life... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another... the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line. -- Arthur Lismer
Except in the rare cases of great dynamic thinkers whose thoughts are as turning-points in the history of our race, it is by Style that writers gain distinction, by Style they secure their immortality. -- George Henry Lewes

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