Turning point may refer to:
- A point at which the derivative changes sign. See stationary point, in mathematics
- A climax (narrative), in narrative structure
- A discrimen, one of the two marked points on a cursus or classical-period race-track
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Famous quotes containing the words turning point, turning and/or point:
“A turning point in modern history.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“I cannot say what poetry is; I know that our sufferings and our concentrated joy, our states of plunging far and dark and turning to come back to the world—so that the moment of intense turning seems still and universal—all are here, in a music like the music of our time, like the hero and like the anonymous forgotten; and there is an exchange here in which our lives are met, and created.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)
“The point is that nationalism, even in its latest madhouse frenzies under Mussolini and Hitler, is still, like advertising, an arm of big business. Nations as we know them today, were the invention of business and it is natural that business should still consider itself slightly above patriotism and that the strongest international should still be the international of profits.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)