Circuitous Quotes

#1. Things have a way of being richer in the end, a product better made, for the circuitous route we take to include all the elements that are necessary for a job well done.

David Whyte

#2. Spring, of all seasons most gratuitous,
Is fold of untaught flower, is race of water,
Is earth's most multiple, excited daughter;
And those she has least use for see her best,
Their paths grown craven and circuitous,
Their visions mountain-clear, their needs immodest.

Philip Larkin

#3. Creativity works on a winding, circuitous route.

Gail Z. Martin

#4. The journey home is never a direct route; it is, in fact, always circuitous, and somewhere along the way, we discover that the journey is more significant than the destination and that the people we meet along the way will be the traveling companions of our memories forever.

Nelson DeMille

#5. These dons, so ponderous, so circuitous, , no sense of time. In a minute they'll be talking about the meaning of meaning.

John Le Carre

#6. The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

Walter Savage Landor

#7. All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself.

Marcus Aurelius

#8. And though circuitous and obscureThe feet of Nemesis how sure!

William Watson

#9. I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer.

Geraldine Ferraro

#10. Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

Henry Ward Beecher

#11. For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight, upward flight of a bird.

Evangeline Walton

#12. Our lives, I've learned, don't simply proceed nicely and directly from "birth" to "death." Instead, I see each one of us as traveling a most curious and branching-out or circuitous route, one that is creative in ways that are both known and, I'm sure now, unknown. Ah,

Jane Roberts

#13. Fire, brimstone and impending apocalypse have always had great success in the pulpit, and the apocalypse is always easier to imagine than the strange circuitous routes to what actually comes next.

Rebecca Solnit

#14. Don't be discouraged. At times the path to truth is circuitous. The point is not to succeed, only to smile eternally.

Frederick Lenz

#15. I came to acting in a very circuitous way.

Victoria Pratt

#16. I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.

Carl Jung

#17. Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what.

Anne Roiphe

#18. For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous paths which it devises for us.

John Calvin

#19. The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; there's no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.

Denise Di Novi

#20. I want to make photographs whose very ambiguity provokes thought, rather than cuts it off prematurely. I want to make pictures that work on a more mysterious level, that approach the truth by a more circuitous route.

John Pfahl

#21. Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high mountain cradle in Pamere, A foiled circuitous wanderertill at last The longed-for dash of waves is heard, and wide His luminous home of waters opens, bright And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.

Matthew Arnold

#22. In a nation of frightened dullards there is a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome:

Hunter S. Thompson

#23. My fellow band members don't discuss their loved ones, and I don't feel that just because I am gay, I should have to discuss mine!

Jonathan Knight

#24. If there was ever an example for redemption, it's you.

Michael Grant

#25. My God, you're hurt," Kyle said.
"I'd appreciate it if you didn't use his name around me right now. He's kicking my ass."
"God?"
"No, but his bitch is."
"How? It's impossible to hurt ghosts."
"Tell that to the smoking crater on my chest.

John Corwin

#26. Cameras love pretty girls and craggy, old character men more than they can take craggy, old character women. But that's what's always happened. Work out how you can fit into it, and make that work. There are never going to be millions of parts for older actresses because there never were.

Joanna Lumley

#27. Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengthy conversations with Ed Miliband, David Miliband, with Tony Blair, with Peter Mandelson ... talking about Europe, talking about political reform.

Nick Clegg

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Naeem Siddiqi

#29. I love to use beets as a lip tint. It lasts all day.

Shay Mitchell

#30. I'm biding my time until my real life kicks in."
"How will you know when that happens?"
"It will be when I no longer have a list of things I've never done.

G.J. Walker-Smith

#31. Anyone can pluck a flower ... true strength is knowing how to give it life.

Aprilynne Pike

#32. Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great: Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#33. The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.

Kenneth Clark