Down The Road Quotes - Page 3

• In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

  Naveen Jain

  Attitude, Failure, Fall

  FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Aug 19, 2016

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• I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

  Burl Ives

  Easter, Walking Away, Clothes

  Burl Ives (2017). “Wayfaring Stranger”, p.120, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road.

  Ed Helms

  Karma, Years, Worried

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• I don't like to think 10 years down the road.

  Martin Gore

  Thinking, Years

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• I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Passion, Kissing, Night

  "'Eat, Pray, Love' author tackles marriage". Interview with A. Pawlowski, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2010.

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• God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

  Isak Dinesen

  World, Able, Live In The Present

  As quoted in obituaries, September 7, 1962.

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• When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Mother, Two, Wife

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• If somebody takes the parking place you were waiting for, I tend to kind of let it roll off my back. Maybe I'm harboring a lot of something and it will all explode somewhere down the road, but I tend to just let it slide off my back.

  Steve Carell

  Waiting, Slides, Kind

  "Steve Carell taps into his inner super-villain in 'Despicable Me'". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodnews.com. June 29, 2010.

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• I don't go down the road of condemning.

  Joel Osteen

  Condemning

  "Larry King Live" with Larry King, edition.cnn.com. June 20, 2005.

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• I think a fragrance is more of a signature than even what you wear - something you'll remember more down the road than a shirt.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, Signatures, Remember

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• When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with yourself and then accidently change down from fourth to first instead of third thus making your engine leap out of your hood in a rather ugly mess, it tends to throw you off stride in much the same way that this remark threw Ford Prefect off his.

  Douglas Adams

  Past, Car, Feelings

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.71, Pan Macmillan

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• My beard grows down to my toes, I never wears no clothes, I wraps my hair Around my bare, And down the road I goes.

  Shel Silverstein

  Hair, Clothes, Beard

  Shel Silverstein, “My Beard”

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• later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Discovery, Land, Water

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• I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Taken, Fate, Knowing

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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• Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.

  J. D. Salinger

  Running, Grief, Taken

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• I probably will have to become more political down the road when my playing days are done, because I'm going to have to have the support of others to grow my foundation.

  Tiger Woods

  Support, Political, Foundation

  "Tiger on marriage, No. 1 ranking, life after golf". Interview with Melissa Stark, www.today.com. December 3, 2004.

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• I think you're very lucky to find somebody you can coexist with without straying or going mad or being angry. That's whether you're Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton, Robbie Williams and Ayda Field, or Tim and June from down the road.

  Robbie Williams

  Thinking, June, Mad

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• Political leaders in Illinois kicked the can down the road, raised taxes, and ignored fiscal realities. Now, they're realizing the consequences of their actions: credit downgrades and negative outlooks.

  Scott Walker

  Reality, Illinois, Leader

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• What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?

  Randall Terry

  Children, Years, America

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• When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.

  Andrew Shue

  Hurt, Pain, Anger

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• I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.

  Alexei Sayle

  Littles, Building, Huts

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• But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

  Alexei Sayle

  Party, Nuance, Belief

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• We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.

  Rick Santelli

  Government, Going Away, Mountain

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• I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career.

  Nolan Ryan

  Believe, Blessed, Careers

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• I am prepared to discuss the things that I believe we need to do not just to raise the debt limit. Raising the debt limit is the easiest thing. That's one vote away. The hard thing is to show the world we are serious about putting our spending in order so we can show people we'll able to pay our bills down the road.

  Marco Rubio

  Believe, Order, People

  Senate Floor Speech On The Debt, www.rubio.senate.gov. July 30, 2011.

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