Detours Quotations

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.

I walked across Tuscany from Siena to Rome, which was a lovely way to see the landscape. It was sunny but not too hot, and we made detours to look at treasures - churches, paintings, little hill villages. The first couple of days, you feel your knees are turning to jelly. But, at the end, you feel very limber. I hope I can always do it.

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.

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

'The Names' is planned as a nine-part series. I have a kind of road map: I know the final scene of episode nine. But as to exactly how we get there, what detours or horrible accidents we might have to pass through, I like to keep that a little fluid.

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.

Trust reverses the detours of adversity into highways of destiny.

You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.

I tell you all this because it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few.

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.

Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.

We take detours to get to the same spot.

I think it's going to take some time for commuters and residents to adjust. But the detours and alternative routes will be adequate to handle the traffic.

Remember when you drive through a construction zone to be aware of who is on either side of you and where you are going, and looking at the directions. There are going to be plenty of signs to show if there are going to be detours or alternative routes.

There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion that's invested into the song come through in the recording.

We have worked very closely with the engineers on this project and they have kept us up to date on every aspect. They have been on schedule, which has allowed us to anticipate when the bridge would come down and so we can plan bus route detours that will take the least amount of time out of our riders' schedules.

We've worked with the construction company to come up with a system of detours that will allow them to work as quickly as possible with a minimal inconvenience to the motoring public,

We have 37 entrances in our facilities, and 800 to 1,000 visitors a day, and we needed to know who was in the building. The new system identifies potential risks and isolates them. It detours a lot of bad things, like purse-snatching.

There's no more pressure in any other coaching job in the country. Not everyone is cut out to coach football at Notre Dame. But I think Charlie is. That's why I think they eventually got the best person for the job even though there might have been some detours before it happened.

There's no more pressure in any other coaching job in the country, ... Not everyone is cut out to coach football at Notre Dame. But I think Charlie is. That's why I think they eventually got the best person for the job even though there might have been some detours before it happened.

It's a real inconvenience. The detours are annoying, but they're not terrible to live with.

I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a journey. Drives are an adventure because I don't plan them too carefully. I take detours depending on how I feel and usually stop and stay at places I like the look of.

I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.

Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction.

It's funny how you can intensely investigate one very particular thing, and then it can lead you to other things through links and stuff like that. It's like you're going on this selective, very precise detour. But then it is strange because with it being so quick, there must be a difference.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.

I don't see love as some perfect happily ever after thing like it is in books and movies. It's more like a bumpy road filled with potholes...and detours. Sometimes we even veer off into the ditch. But the places that road will take you, the things you'll experience, are worth all of the uncertainty.

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.

In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.

It is always possible to approach a goal by a detour.

Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).

Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.

There are no dead ends, just detours.

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.

I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day's schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.

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]

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.

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. Happiness is a direction, not a place.

The detour is always rougher than the main road

In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions - but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey.

I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

Second thoughts have aborted more dreams than all the difficult circumstances, overwhelming obstacles, and dangerous detours fate ever could throw at you.

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

Your life may have taken a detour, but God is still on the throne. He has brought you this far, and sooner or later, your peace will be restored.

We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination

The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.

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.

Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.