Down The Road Quotes

• If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Happiness, Running, Positive Thinking

  "Coolidge: An American Enigma". Book by Robert Sobel, p. 242, 2000.

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• The road to success is always under construction.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Inspiring, Success

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• Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.

  Douglas Adams

  Believe, Space, Mind

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.204, Pan Macmillan

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• People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Happiness, Happy, Mean

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• How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”

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• The road goes ever on and on

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Books And Movies, Errands, Fellowship

  The Fellowship of the Ring bk. 1, ch. 1 (1954)

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• The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Doors, Feet, Poetry

  The Fellowship of the Ring bk. 1, ch. 1 (1954)

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• The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Science, Collective Unconscious

  The Interpretation of Dreams ch. 7 (1900)

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• Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

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• Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.

  Truman Capote

  Dream, Reading, Home

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.69, Vintage

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• So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.

  Sharon Creech

  Blue, Car, Mud

  Sharon Creech (2001). “Love That Dog”, p.4, A&C Black

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• I mean, everyone has to calm down sometime. I'll still smoke up and party, but yeah, eventually you gotta settle down and be an adult. But still have fun. Demi's helped me sort of like, understand that down the road it'll just happen.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Fun, Party, Mean

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• In New York the stakes are so high. In urban centers the stakes are so high. You marry the wrong person, you go to the wrong college, you take the wrong job. Any of these things could really get you in trouble down the road. Or in your mind anyway. You're afraid to make any move, it's paralyzing.

  Meghan Daum

  Jobs, New York, Moving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As a citizen I might be well-behaved and have nothing salacious or radical about me, I might be a total bore, but I might suffer somehow if other people are being spied on and blocked from doing important work that might have a collective benefit down the road. The personal doesn't necessarily translate to the social.

  Astra Taylor

  People, Suffering, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which he considers a defining point in his life as an activist, he's also set the stage for potential ugliness down the road.

  James Vance

  Read Between The Lines, Stories, May

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Everything can inspire me. I know that sounds like a cop-out answer, but I find inspiration in literally just about everything. As an actor, I have to watch people and observe their behaviors - this is how I create characters. My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road. Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.

  Josh McDermitt

  Art, Inspiration, Character

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• The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and they went around the neighborhood saying, "We're pregnant." I want to go around the neighborhood saying, "We're depressed." If my mum can't get out of bed in the morning, all of us feel the same. Her silence has become ours, and it's eating us alive.

  Melina Marchetta

  Depression, Mother, Baby

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.75, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Sydney sighed and stood up, smoothing her rumpled clothes with dismay. ʺI need a coffee shop or something.ʺ ʺI think I saw one in a cave down the road,ʺ I said. That almost got a smile from her

  Richelle Mead

  Coffee, Thinking, Clothes

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• What use legs if not to take you down the road? What use eyes if not to see what lay beyond the horizon? What use hands if not to open doors?

  Chris Claremont

  Eye, Doors, Hands

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• Recently Mr. Mawdsley’s donkey escaped from his stall, raced down the road, and somehow found his way into an enclosed pasture. Mr. Caird’s prized mare was innocently grazing when the ill-bred seducer had his way with her. Now it appears the mare has conceived, and a feud is raging between Caird, who demands financial compensation, and Mawdsley, who insists that had the pasture fencing been in better repair, the clandestine meeting would never have occurred. Worse still, it has been suggested that the mare is a shameless lightskirt and did not try nearly hard enough to preserve her virtue.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Trying, Feuds, Demand

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.

  Charlaine Harris

  Taken, Path, Sometimes

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.161, Penguin

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• I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Stones, Today, Ends

  Catherine Ryan Hyde (2008). “Chasing Windmills”, Flying Dolphin Press

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• Our lives hang in the balance of unpredictable situations. One minute you're driving down the road whistling a tune, the next moment the car right in front of you spins out of control and crashes. How you prepare for those unpredictable occurrences determines whether you live or die. Always leave an empty lane to your right or left for escape.

  Ted Dekker

  Car, Balance, Tunes

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• And when you're alone there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.

  Dr. Seuss

  Scare, Goes On, Want

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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