#turning point

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#biggest #even #freshman #freshman year #geek

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#bloodless #bush #coup #court #even

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

#civil war #forward #history #ii #non

To some extent at that time, we injected rock and roll into that scene- we played loud and that was a huge turning point for that scene. We were involved in playing with all those people. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#huge #injected #into #involved #loud

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else. ↗

— Barry McGuire

#american #beatles #big #came #else

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#afforded #brutally #day #does #ever

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#conception #contemporary #contemporary society #few #getting

My life is one long curve, full of turning points. ↗

— Pierre Trudeau

#full #life #long #my life #points

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#children #come #curse #generations #go

It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#find #had #i #point #something