Path Quotes - Page 26

• The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

  Vladimir Putin

  Simple, Pages, Tragic

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• South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.

  Tariq Ramadan

  White, Rainbow, Black

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• I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships. I am so lucky to be on the little golden path that led me to all this.

  Julia Roberts

  People, Different, Lucky

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2003.

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• Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD.

  Joe Rogan

  Girlfriend, Trying, Good Girlfriend

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• The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.

  Mitt Romney

  War, Government, Promise

  "Mitt Romney’s New Hampshire primary speech" by Felicia Sonmez, www.washingtonpost.com. January 10, 2012.

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• I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

  Mitt Romney

  Desire, Different, Succeed

  Mitt Romney's primary speech in New Hampshire, www.washingtonpost.com. January 10, 2012.

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• Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Reading, Men, People

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.340, Courier Corporation

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• When you talk about entitlement programs, it's not just about - it's not about cutting those programs. It is about saving those programs. Those programs are on a path of fiscal unsustainability.

  Marco Rubio

  Cutting, Saving, Entitlement

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• Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  May, Steps, Achieve

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Distance, Men, Civilization

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Spiritual, Cover Ups, Denial

  "A Way Out of Suffering: An Interview With Sharon Salzberg". "Omega Institute" Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2012.

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• You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the fun stuff: the costumes, the locations, the set-dressing and the actors. They can all be variable as you like if you stick - however roughly - to the path.

  Gus Van Sant

  Fun, Track, Stories

  "Gus van Sant: the last king of the underground". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2011.

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• In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.

  Adam Savage

  Simple, Car, Black

  "Potentially awesome outcomes: Adam Savage on the courage to try". www.wired.com. October 30, 2012.

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• Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

  Charles Schumer

  Rivers, Way, Steps

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• It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us.

  Ariel Sharon

  Dream, Israel, Impossible

  "Sharon narrowly survives attempt to oust him as Likud leader" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2005.

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• My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Passion, Blessing, Opportunity

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• I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Environment, Feels, Has Beens

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 25, 2011.

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• It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Design, Communism, Difficult

  Interview with Joseph Pearce, www.catholiceducation.org. February 2003.

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• Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

  Gloria Steinem

  Workout, Women, Power

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• I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.

  Dan Stevens

  Dad, Real, Grateful

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

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• I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Faith, Believe, Brotherhood

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• Really, I'm incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don't necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me.

  Kristen Stewart

  Long, Littles, Interviews

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• I'm not one of those people who sits at dinner on their iPhone all night. I'm either working or I'm not. I've gone down that path where you sleep with your phone beside the bed and send an email just before you put your head down and check everything again when you wake up, and I don't like it.

  Curtis Stone

  Sleep, Night, Iphone

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• A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity.

  John Sununu

  Running, Winning, Effort

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• Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Religious, Prayer

  "Becoming Hindu and Finding the Essence of All Spiritual Paths" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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