Highways Quotes - Page 4

• I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.

  Max Beckmann

  Spring, Flower, People

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• By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.

  Bob Menendez

  Bridges, Aggravation, Safe

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• We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Sin, Conflict

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.88, BookBaby

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• The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness.

  Paul P. Harris

  War, Way, Wilderness

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• When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.

  Willie Nelson

  Writing, Driving

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• After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

  Arthur Miller

  Years, Alive, Ends

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Death of a Salesman”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

  Bob Dylan

  Way, Mona Lisa

  Song: Visions of Johanna

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• Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused.

  Ernest Greenwood

  Safety, Accidents Happen, Streets

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• I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Lanes

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• No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following sentence: Two tanker trucks has just overturned in Alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.

  Mike Nichols

  Beer, Agreement, Skills

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• Look, if you're driving down the highway at 120 miles an hour, I'd rather be behind the wheel than in the backseat.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Wheels, Looks, Driving

  "The GQ&A: Mark Wahlberg". Interview with Dan Hyman, www.gq.com. January 11, 2012.

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• Relationships are a two way street. Not a highway and a bike path.

  Vince Vaughn

  Two, Way, Path

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• Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.

  Rick Pitino

  Doubt, Path

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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• If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six.

  Nat King Cole

  Travel, Way, West

  Song: (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66

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• The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.

  Theodore Roethke

  Cat, Journey, Wind

  Theodore Roethke (2005). “Selected Poems”

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• The people who hate SICP are the ones who just want to know how to drive their car on the highway, just like everyone else.

  Peter Norvig

  Hate, People, Car

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• Not since the multiplication of the loaves and fishes near the Sea of Galilee has there been creativity as miraculous as that of the Keystone XL pipeline. It has not yet been built but already is perhaps the most constructive infrastructure project since the Interstate Highway System. It has accomplished an astonishing trifecta

  George Will

  Creativity, Sea, Pipeline

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• The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe - that the god in the sanctuary was finite in his power and hence a fraud. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

  H. L. Mencken

  Horse, Cat, Gay

  "Clinical Notes". The American Mercury (January 1924), p. 75; later quoted in H. L. Mencken "Prejudices: Fourth Series", 1924.

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• If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end up being a situation common in the Third World: some sections of highways in wealthy areas are beautifully maintained and other parts are just dirt-strewn potholes.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  America, Different, World

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

  Beth Moore

  Adversity, Destiny, Detours

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• Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

  Blaise Pascal

  Moving, Rivers, Wish

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.241

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• Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?

  Anatole France

  Friendship, Dog, Heart

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.1266, Delphi Classics

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• Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed our wanderlust, mimicked our arteries, and charmed our imaginations in a way the static pond or vast and savage ocean never could.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream, Ocean, Men

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.62, Bantam

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• Future generations, riding on the highways that we built, I hope they have a better understanding.

  John Mellencamp

  Future, Understanding, Riding

  Song: Check It Out

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• I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea

  Robert James Waller

  Sea, Sail

  "The Bridges of Madison County: the Broadway musical - review" by Alexis Soloski, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2014.

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