Paved Roads Quotes

• If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Sep 09, 2009

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• Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Flower, Mediocrity, Way

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• The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dog, Writing, Sisterhood

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.37, Hamilton Books

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• Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.

  Will Rogers

  Birthday, Travel, Carpe Diem

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• The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

  Julie Powell

  Writing, Sisterhood, Skulls

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• The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Writing, Procrastination

  Statement on April 14, 1775. "Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell. Volume II, 1791.

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• The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

  Stephen King

  Movie, Writing, Sisterhood

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Feb 06, 2013

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• The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

  Philip Roth

  Work, Writing, Sisterhood

  1979 In the NewYorkTimes Book Review,15 Jul.

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• I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Thinking, Bishops, Saved

  Saint John Chrysostom, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Homilies of Saint John Chrysostom: On the Acts of the Apostles”, p.52, Aeterna Press

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• The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Light, Skulls, Bishops

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• There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Catholic, Danger, Subjects

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• Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Conservation, Form

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.48, University of Arizona Press

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• Satisfied is a word I use only in reference to my country, and I'll never be satisfied for my country. For this reasons I go on taking difficult paths, and between a paved road and a footpath that goes up the mountain, I choose the footpath. To the great irritation of my bodyguards.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Irritation, Mountain

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . .

  Wallace Stegner

  Zoos, Dirty, Book

  Wallace Earle Stegner (2007). “The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner”, Counterpoint

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• When you start writing, you have your characters on a metaphorical paved road, and as they go down it, all these other roads become available that they can go down. And a lot of writers have roadblocks in front of those roads: they won’t allow their characters to go down those roads... I’ve never put any roadblocks on any of these paths. My characters can go wherever they would naturally go, and I’ll follow them.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Character, Down And

  "Quentin Tarantino Talks Inglourious Basterds - RT Interview". Interview with Henri Sordeau, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. August 11, 2009.

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• You might be a redneck if directions to your house include turn off the paved road.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, House, Might

  Jeff Foxworthy (2005). “Redneck Extreme Mobile Home Makeover: Or A Redneck Look at Fixing Up and Decorating Your House Without Loss of Limbs”, p.19, Thomas Nelson Inc

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