Path Quotes - Page 27

• I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.

  Taylor Swift

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• My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path.

  Marlo Thomas

  Mother, Strong, Kids

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• Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico's political status, there are some who seek to block that path.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Determination, Block, Self

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• I think most people think that a spiritual path or growing spiritually means that all of a sudden you'll be able to forecast the six lotto numbers and all your bills will be paid.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Spiritual, Mean, Thinking

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• When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.

  Lech Walesa

  Life Lesson, Lying, Hatred

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• People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.

  Dionne Warwick

  People, Entertainment, Sammy Davis Jr

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• I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

  George Washington

  Political, Littles, Separation Of Church And State

  George Washington (1800). “Legacies of Washington: being a collection of the most approved writings of the late General Washington, with an appendix containing a sketch of the life of this illustrious patriot, &c. &c. (By J. M. Williams.) [With an engraved portrait.]”, p.222

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• The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

  H. G. Wells

  Friendship, Broken Heart, Work

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.1733, Delphi Classics

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• Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Dream, Moving, Ideas

  "Fareed Zakaria: 'The American Dream Is Better In Europe'" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. November 6, 2011.

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• It's interesting when you read the life of Christ how much of his time he spent healing the sick. There must have been a reason for that - he was modelling for us what it is we are intended to do by following his path.

  Francis Collins

  Healing, Sick, Interesting

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• The Savior warns that if we start along the path and go far enough and then fail and deny Him, it would have been better if we had never begun.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Failing, Enough, Deny

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• For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

  Helen Fisher

  Careers, Generations, Changed

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• In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and plastic. Inferior standards can prevail due to smart marketing or industry collusion.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Smart, Creating, Games

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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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• Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: ‘Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the West and of the peasantry of the East in order to shatter the old world. May the god of history be my aid!

  Joseph Stalin

  Russia, Order, Effort

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• A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Flower, Gay

  Edgar Allan Poe (2009). “The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.314, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.

  J. K. Rowling

  Integrity, Boys, Choices

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• No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone's path, easy and wide, goes nowhere. I am alone and find my way.

  Octavio Paz

  Way, Easy, Behinds

  Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger (1998). “In Light of India”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Wise, Years, Together

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• Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Flower, Inspiration, Humility

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• My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On a gravel strewn bed, Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman, Burning and dripping with poisons, Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant way Its belly, swollen with gases.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Sweet, Air

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• Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea. Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar.

  Antonio Machado

  Son, Sea, Hay

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• February dawn -- frost on the path Where I paced all winter.

  Jack Kerouac

  Winter, Dawn, Frost

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Book of Haikus”, p.51, Penguin

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• Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Moving, Choices, Bidding

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.259, Vintage

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• There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I failed myself.

  Libba Bray

  Character, Different, Chosen

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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