Avenues Quotes

• It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.

  Bryan Ferry

  Nice, Different, Pursue

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• Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

  Charles Simmons

  Heart, Evil, Mind

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• All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Sports, Winning, People

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• I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Vision, Jazz

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• Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

  Cullen Hightower

  Moving Forward, Thinking, Futility Of Life

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• A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.

  John L. Phillips

  Expression, Civilization, Inward

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• Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Creativity, Dark, Night

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1973). “A Passion for Truth”, p.259, Macmillan

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• God desires and is pleased to communicate with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills, and our emotions. The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the souls of the redeemed men and women is the throbbing heart of the New Testament.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Men, Soul

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• In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only way people can meet as equals, and exchange ideas. Culture then becomes primarily the voice of the oppressed and it takes over from politics as a driving force for change.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Independent, Ideas, Voice

  Reith Lectures: In the Beginning was Sound, downloads.bbc.co.uk. 2006.

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• The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were only a thin slice among contiguous impressions which formed our life at that time; the memory of a certain image is but regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Regret, Years

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's”, ePenguin

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• When there are no avenues of escape or one is caught even before any attempt to escape can be made, then for the first time the use of self-defense techniques should be considered. Even at times like these, do not show any intention of attacking, but first let the attacker become careless. At that time attack him concentrating one's whole strength in one blow to a vital point and in the moment of surprise, escape and seek shelter and help.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Blow, Times Like These, Self

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• I think everyone has the potential to be creative but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

  Julian Lennon

  Thinking, Creative, Be Creative

  "Mindful Music: The Creation of ‘Everything Changes’ With Julian Lennon". Interview with Ronald Alexander, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2013.

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• The idea that the universe itself is physically structured around hierarchy was sort of an integration of earlier science and theology that was made by people like Thomas Aquinas, that was assumed doctrinally in that tradition. The Reformation rejected that model of reality and created a highly individualistic metaphysics in the sense that it located everything normative that can be said about reality in human perception, there being, of course, no other avenue of knowing. There is Scripture, there is conscience, there is perception itself.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Reality, Knowing, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've had my Charlie Sheen moments, it was usually just at the Mars Bar on the corner of First Avenue with me and a few homeless guys.

  Moby

  Guy, Bars, Mars

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• She's quite skinny, like me, but nice skinny. Roller-skate skinny. I watched her once from the window when she was crossing over Fifth Avenue to go to the park, and that's what she is, roller-skate skinny. You'd like her.

  J. D. Salinger

  Nice, Fifth Avenue, Parks

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• ...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country. By the transport of books, that which is most foreign becomes one's familiar walks and avenues; while that which is most familiar is removed to delightful strangeness; and unmoving, one travels infinite causeways, immobile and thus unfettered.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Country, Book, Reading

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• I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something – the eternal ‘what’s the use?’ – sets its bronze barrier across every avenue that I open up in the realm of hypothesis.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Depression, Dream, Ambition

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.118, Harvard University Press

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• I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next day had suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sleep, Years, Next Day

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.95, Faber & Faber

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• i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.

  Charles Bukowski

  Rose, Hustle, Born

  Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Cats”, p.21, Canongate Books

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• Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.

  Tom Robbins

  Love You, Making Love, Brooklyn

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.111, Bantam

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• How often have we ourselves said or have heard others exclaim in times of crisis or trouble, 'I just don't know where to turn'? If we will just use it, there is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Comfort, Times Of Crisis, Use

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• Madison Avenue is full of masochists who unconsciously provoke rejection by their clients. I know brilliant men who have lost every account they have ever handled.

  David Ogilvy

  Men, Rejection, Clients

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• As you show these principles over and over , it becomes engrained into how we think. And, when your kids see that, they begin doing it to their siblings. And so we've seen that as well. Many of these aspects I already knew as a parent but, as I study them more, there are more avenues that I can apply in my own parenting and I'm seeing how my kids are watching how I (interact) with my wife and (with) each of them and I watch how they (interact) with each other.

  Alex Kendrick

  Sibling, Kids, Thinking

  "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.

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• People have really different methods of working. Some people prepare tons and tons of material, literally on paper, and they will use as much of it as they can. Some people prepare various lines in their heads and various avenues to go. And some people show up literally going, "I know who I am and I know what the situation is, but I'm just going to see what comes out."

  Jim Piddock

  Who I Am, People, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue.

  Terence McKenna

  War, Goes On, Television

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