Detours Quotes - Page 5

• In the armed forces, the chances of success are quite high. That's due to the clarity of the military structure - everything is sketched out. In politics, there are many more surprises and detours, and it's a lot more unpredictable.

  Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

  Military, Chance, Clarity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't see love as some perfect happily ever after thing like it is in books and movies. It's more like a bumpy road filled with potholes...and detours. Sometimes we even veer off into the ditch. But the places that road will take you, the things you'll experience, are worth all of the uncertainty.

  Melissa Brown

  Book, Perfect, Bumpy Roads

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• We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Dream, Cities, Long

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions - but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Journey, Interruptions, My Journey

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• Failure does not exist. Once you hit the construction zone road blocks, follow the detour signs to get back to ur original path.

  Behdad Sami

  Block, Doe, Path

  Twitter post from Aug 15, 2014

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• In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.

  Shawn Amos

  Father, Careers, Chocolate

  "Cookies & Milk: Scenes From a ‘70s Hollywood Childhood" by Shawn Amos, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 19, 2011.

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• Along the (writing) way accidents happen, detours get taken... But these are not "divine" accidents; I don't believe in those. I believe you have constructive accidents en route through a novel only because you have mapped a clear way. If you have confidence that you have a clear direction to take, you always have confidence to explore other ways; if they prove to be mere digressions, you'll recognize that and make the necessary revisions. The more you know about a book, the freer you can be to fool around. The less you know, the tighter you get.

  John Irving

  Believe, Book, Taken

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• I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day’s schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Schedules, Dinner, Able

  "Matthew McConaughey Throws Muscle Behind New Apparel Collection". Interview with Jean E. Palmieri, wwd.com. February 14, 2013.

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• It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

  Lauren Oliver

  Change, Breakup, Wind

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• I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

  Walter Benjamin

  Stars, Delay, World

  Walter Benjamin (2009). “One-Way Street and Other Writings”, p.8, Penguin UK

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• I see exercise taking this perverted detour. The original intention of exercise was to heal and maintain health. Now I see it as having nothing to do with health. I see most exercises based on looking good. They actually make you less healthy. You overdevelop the obvious muscles. You take drugs to enhance that. You ignore the rest, and you become more out of balance.

  Bryan Kest

  Exercise, Drug, Healthy

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• Trust reverses the detours of adversity into highways of destiny.

  Beth Moore

  Adversity, Destiny, Highways

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• If a period is a stop sign, then what kind of traffic flow is created by other marks? The comma is a speed bump; the semicolon is what a driver education teacher calls a “rolling stop”; the parenthetical expression is a detour; the colon is a flashing yellow light that announces something important up ahead; the dash is a tree branch in the road.

  Roy Peter Clark

  Teacher, Light, Expression

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• Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

  Zig Ziglar

  Failure, Mean, Dead Ends

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• I'm also interested in something that can happen later in life. In midstream, you can suddenly take what looks like a detour; I'm sure I've taken many detours.

  Joe Bradley

  Taken, Later In Life, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

  Honore de Balzac

  Dog, Art, Wind

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• Never give up! People don't understand how persistent you have to be. You come up against an obstacle and you have to find a way of moving forward. You take detours, navigate between the obstacles and make it happen. Unless you are very strong and convinced you can succeed, you will be swept away.

  Frank Lowy

  Strong, Giving Up, Moving

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• In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.

  Mason Cooley

  Labyrinth, Path, Monsters

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• Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Art, Taken, Passion

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• Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction.

  Jason Schwartzman

  New York, Thinking, Steps

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The plan was that I was going to do comics, and then the music just cam up in my life and was a detour.

  Gerard Way

  Plans

  Source: collider.com

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• When we generally make healthy choices about food (or wise choices about life), we tend to move in the right direction, living as we believe God wants us to live. If we make an intentional exception for a special treat or for a diversion, that might not be a big deal. But if we step off the best path, we're tempted to detour into more unwise choices. In that case, your decision does matter.

  Craig Groeschel

  Wise, Moving, Believe

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• There are certainly people for whom politics is not a category that helps you understand human existence. In fact, it's kind of a detour into superficiality, and although I disagree with those people, I don't think it's the case that everyone who writes has to write politically or has to write in opposition to the really horrendous things that are going on on a political level in the world today. There are some writers who simply aren't any good at that and really should stay away from it.

  Tony Kushner

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you don’t know your purpose, discover it, now. The core of your life is your purpose. Everything in your life, from your diet to your career, must be aligned with your purpose if you are to act with coherence and integrity in the world. If you know your purpose, your deepest desire, then the secret of success is to discipline your life so that you support your deepest purpose and minimize distractions and detours.

  David Deida

  Integrity, Careers, Discipline

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• Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.

  Ann Patchett

  Fate, Doors, Long

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