Detours famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you.
-- Allison DuBois -
Trust reverses the detours of adversity into highways of destiny.
-- Beth Moore -
Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.
-- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -
Sometimes when we’re focused on quickly getting to our destination, we’ll encounter unexpected roadblocks and detours. Always remember that there’s more than one path that will lead you to where you’re going. Who knows? You might just enjoy that new, more scenic route!
-- Clifton Anderson -
Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.
-- Darren Shan -
On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.
-- Eleanor Holmes Norton -
The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.
-- Ernest Becker -
Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make.
-- Gabrielle Bernstein -
The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey -
Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination.
-- James Arthur Ray -
The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.[make the best of what is necessary...if you can't have what you love, love what you have...as there are lovable or at least positive aspects in everything, because anything could be worse]
-- James Jeans -
I'm also interested in something that can happen later in life. In midstream, you can suddenly take what looks like a detour; I'm sure I've taken many detours.
-- Joe Bradley -
The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.
-- John Piper -
Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine!
-- Jon Gordon -
There is no detour to holiness, Jesus came to the resurrection through the cross, not around it.
-- Leighton Ford -
An unanticipated destination, perhaps, but you must admit,all the best journeys take unexpected detours.
-- Lisa Mangum -
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.
-- Lynne Truss -
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
-- Mary Kay Ash -
The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures." There is a rhetoric of walking. The art of "turning" phrases finds an equivalent in an art of composing a path.
-- Michel de Certeau -
On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination
-- Paulo Coelho -
Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.
-- Sheryl Crow -
I thought following a straight road would lead me right to my destination. Like the road would just take me there because I was following all the rules. And if the road curved, I couldn't be sure about where I was going. But look where it got me. Maybe it's time for a detour.
-- Susane Colasanti -
Those whose purpose does not match yours are not wrong; they have their mission, and finding their own purposeful way may involve many detours and acts that seem destructive.
-- Wayne Dyer -
Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
-- William Arthur Ward -
Failure does not exist. Once you hit the construction zone road blocks, follow the detour signs to get back to ur original path.
-- Behdad Sami -
In the armed forces, the chances of success are quite high. That's due to the clarity of the military structure - everything is sketched out. In politics, there are many more surprises and detours, and it's a lot more unpredictable.
-- Abdel Fattah el-Sisi -
Life doesn't always go the way you planned it to go. Sometimes you have detours you have to take.
-- Andrew McCutchen -
The cross is not a detour or a hurdle on the way to the kingdom, nor is it even the way to the kingdom; it is the kingdom come.
-- John Howard Yoder -
Poland is smaller than France or Germany, for example. What would a common foreign policy look like? Would the trip I took to Kiev last week require a detour through Brussels in the future? Would it require approval from Brussels? While the West, for its part, doesn't think twice about other countries when it comes to its projects?
-- Lech Kaczynski
