Top 100 Dead End Quotes
#1. I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.'
Robert H. Schuller
#2. After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end.
- Saphira
Christopher Paolini
#3. The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.
Helen Fisher
#4. Realizing the emptiness of a "spirituality"
and of a "spiritual" nurture
that remains in the clouds need not bring us or our children to a dead end. It is a turning point. Now we can begin to deepen our awareness of the genuine spirituality of life's humblest moments.
Jean Grasso Fitzpatrick
#5. Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years and album after album after album, without it seeming like a dead-end street.
Dave Grohl
#6. We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to scribble a few words, to write for the hell of it instead of for the perfect and polished result.
Julia Cameron
#7. A giddy feeling, in a way, except there was the dreamy edge of impossibility to it - like running a dead-end maze - no way out - it couldn't come to a happy conclusion and yet I was doing it anyway because it was all I could think of to do.
Tim O'Brien
#8. I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long term.
Tim O'Reilly
#9. Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration.
Dave Barry
#10. In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don't devote resources to focusing on that; you go elsewheres.
Michael Bloomberg
#11. Thought is a dead end; language is a merry-go-round.
Marty Rubin
#12. Success isn't something you have, it's something you do. Don't be fooled into taking shortcuts, they always lead to a dead-end. Instead, establish a goal, make a plan, and take purposeful action. Those who experience success are those who live it; those who earn it.
Steve Maraboli
#13. I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.
Jodi Picoult
#14. Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#16. I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.
Rudy Rucker
#17. I do a lot of things hopin I never had to fit in, so tryin to keep up with my progress is like a dead end.
Drake
#18. Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful
Albert Camus
#19. I start off but I don't know where I'm going; I try this avenue and that avenue, that turns out to be a dead end, this is a dead end, and so on. The search takes a long time and I have to back-track often.
Galway Kinnell
#20. Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?
Ellen Hopkins
#21. Falling in love with a house or a car or a pair of shoes, it was a dead end. You save your love for the things that can love you back.
David Wong
#22. When we pass judgment, we hit a dead end. When we analyze something with an open mind, we can explore a concept into infinity.
Romina Russell
#23. As has already been stated: some people's brains border their anal regions. Thus, their senses are dulled, and the psychopathological pestilence is such that the intrepid scholar-explorer inevitably butts up against a dead end.
Juan Filloy
#24. Love is blind and little did I know, you were just another dead end road. Paved with pretty lies and broken dreams.
Julie Roberts
#25. I think it was probably both the coincidence and the beer that made Miralles say at some point that we were going to end up the same, defeated and alone and
punch-drunk in a dead-end city, pissing blood before going into the ring to fight to the death against our own shadows in an empty stadium.
Javier Cercas
#26. This is the beauty of imagination. An unexpected dead end in one journey is merely an opportunity to set a new course for another.
Sean Patrick
#27. If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course
Oprah Winfrey
#28. People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets
Charles R. Swindoll
#29. But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.
Mink Stole
#30. I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.
David Hyde Pierce
#31. Misery is a dead end that stops at a brick wall. If you want to escape it, you must back out carefully, never taking your eyes off the wall. That way, it looks as though the wall is receding.
Yasmina Khadra
#32. There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.
Thomas Sowell
#33. God won't tie your soul to a dead-end dream.
Lou Engle
#34. An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.
Frank Wilczek
#35. Everyone feels depressed, angry or frustrated at times; it's a crossroads not a dead end.
Sam Owen
#36. I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
Viggo Mortensen
#37. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Denis Waitley
#38. And why was she only attracted to guys who were sleeping with somebody else? If Georgie were a wild animal, she'd be a genetic dead end.
Rainbow Rowell
#39. Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.
John C. Maxwell
#40. The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes
Seth Godin
#41. Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This is a dead-end track, fraught with a big catastrophe.
Vladimir Putin
#43. It is our response to temptation that leads us down the path of righteousness or into the dead end of disobedience.
Alistair Begg
#44. Maybe its not necessarily a dead-end job; maybe more along the lines of a rear-end one.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#45. The democratic world has come to a dead end; likewise, the communist world has come to a dead end. But the Unification Church is just beginning!
Sun Myung Moon
#46. I live at the end of a dead end one way street. I don't know how I got there.
Steven Wright
#47. James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
Edward Abbey
#48. There are no dead ends in life, only dead end thinking.
Orrin Woodward
#49. I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.
Steven Wright
#50. Just because you've come to a dead end, it's not time to give up. Find a different route and keep pressing forward.
Joel Osteen
#51. Tell me I'm not the only one who thought he'd set us up," he murmured.
"Totally imagined a huge dead end," I agreed.
We laughed with giddy relief as Sage emerged into the cave.
Hilary Duff
#52. Every lie a person tells is an emotional dead end road that puts weight on the heart. Satisfaction is always in the truth.
Ron Baratono
#53. We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.
John Blair
#54. I used to think only people like Mother Teresa and Gandhi had a mission in life. We all have one. How do you find it? You listen to your life.
All those dead-end jobs? There's no such thing. In God's economy, nothing is ever wasted. The dots all connect in time.
Regina Brett
#55. If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven't even climbed. This is a lesson that can only be learned by trial and error.
Mary Ruefle
#56. How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
#58. Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly.
Taylor Swift
#59. Lotto fever hit New York again this week, and like the old saying goes, 'You gotta be in it to win it' ... but first, you gotta have a dead end job so pathetic you're willing to kill five hours standing in line for a 1 in 25 million chance.
Dennis Miller
#61. We were all commuters, traveling, serially to the same unsatisfying future, the same dead end.
Bobby Adair
#62. Those who deny the change in consciousness that the divine process of creation now brings about-or actually imposes on us-and fail to develop their intuition accordingly will sooner or later find themselves at a dead end.
Carl Johan Calleman
#63. His accelerated path to yogihood hit a dead end when his kundalini exploded in a crowded department store. No one else was injured, but Swami caught an inflection which left him with a permanent East Indian accent.
Swami Beyondananda
#64. In time, I found out that in God's economy nothing is ever wasted. All those "dead-end jobs" prepared me for the job of my dreams in journalism.
Regina Brett
#65. Sometimes your heart can lead you to a dead end.
Chetan Bhagat
#66. Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
William Arthur Ward
#67. When you get to the end of the road and feel like you've arrived at a place where you don't want to be, for pity sakes, turn around, back up and move in a different direction. There's no road in life that is a dead end unless you stop there permanently.
Toni Sorenson
#68. Christian leadership is a dead-end street when nothing new is expected, when everything sounds familiar and when ministry has regressed to the level of routine.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#69. To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.
Jane Jacobs
#70. Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine!
Jon Gordon
#71. I laced my shoes with sorrow
and walked a weary road
dead end streets
don't come undone
with double knots
wing tipped shoes
that walk on air
through vacant lots
Saul Williams
#73. Every problem, every dilemma, every dead end we find ourselves facing in life, only appears unsolvable inside a particular frame or point of view. Enlarge the box, or create another frame around the data, and problems vanish, while new opportunities appear.
Rosamund Stone Zander
#74. A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.
Bo Bennett
#75. I've had much more down in my life than I've had up. And much more struggle. First of all, when I went into the film school everybody said, "What are you doing? This is a complete dead-end for a career."
George Lucas
#76. The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
Robert Morgan
#77. End? You don't mean like, dead end?
Paul Dini
#78. Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end.
Byron Katie
#79. Do not follow your present course. It is a dead end. The dead end of the perfect English gentleman.
Guy Vanderhaeghe
#80. There's no such thing as a lost cause, or a dead end. Through persistence, attitude, and creativity, there's always an escape route.
Urijah Faber
#81. A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
Naomi Judd
#82. Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.
Buzz Aldrin
#83. Explaining one's recent loss as more of a continuous journey rather than a dead end, giving one of the invaluable opportunity to gain strength and learn about oneself, and thereby turning this terribly tragic affair into something hugely positive.
Cecelia Ahern
#84. Imagination may be the most essential, uniquely human capacity - creating both the dead-end crises of our time and the doorway through them.
Bill Plotkin
#86. I'm a dead end, Adam." And at that moment, that was exactly how I felt inside ... a dead end.
Jenni Moen
#87. The increasing fascination with and funding of genetic technology is simply another medical dead end, another reductionist rabbit hole that will lead us no further toward preventing and reversing chronic illness.
T. Colin Campbell
#88. Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
Cullen Hightower
#89. Work at what you love the most, even if you're only a two. Trust that your love for what your are doing will see you through. That's not easy, but better to grow into what you love than to pretend you're satisfied with a developmental dead end.
Laurence Boldt
#90. Dear Artie: "The young fellow has disappeared into a dead end. I think the long-necked bastard planned to wind up in Paris and sent him there but he may also have used the underground railroad. Ask your round-heeled contact. Maybe you can find more than I could. "Roy
John Pearce
#91. Its not a dead end if it takes you some were you needed to go.
Joe Bradford
#92. Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.
Jim Woodring
#93. The path Jesus takes you on may look like it's taking you to one dead end after another. Nevertheless, the thread does not work in reverse. If you just obey Jesus and follow it forward, it will do its work.
Timothy J. Keller
#94. When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.
K.d. Lang
#95. I personally feel that a box, far from being a dead end, is an entrance to another world. I don't know to where, but an entrance to somewhere, some other world.
Kobo Abe
#96. My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings.
Rick Smolan
#97. Whatever the degree to which Darwin may have "misled science into a dead end," the biologist Shi V. Liu observed in commenting on Koonin's paper, "we may still appreciate the role of Darwin in helping scientists [win an] upper hand in fighting against the creationists.
David Berlinski
#98. It was a silly age, twenty-five; too old for teenaged dreaming, too young for settling down. Every corner was a possibility and a dead end.
Toni Morrison
#99. So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn't apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it
Robert Fulghum
#100. A nations path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and that militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.
Fareed Zakaria
