Top 86 Detour Quotes
#1. Way from Panchavati to Meluha or do we take a detour?' asked Shiva, goading
Amish Tripathi
#2. It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#3. There's a plan. If you're willing to fight it hard enough, you can make it detour for a while, but you're still going to end up wherever God wants you to be. G
Homer Hickam
#4. I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist.
Jess Walter
#5. If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm asking for your vote.
Mitt Romney
#6. I tell him I take anti-depressants, which leads him on a thirty-minute detour. He tells me sadness is a part of finding out who you are. I tell him getting out of bed is also a part of finding out who you are. We agree to disagree.
Hilary Winston
#7. 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.
Samuel Johnson
#8. I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
Damien Chazelle
#9. In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.
Shawn Amos
#10. Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
William Arthur Ward
#11. The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God ... or an artist and a writer.
Vera Nazarian
#12. beast. But first I detour toward the lanai and plop myself on a chaise. The sun is high up in the afternoon sky, not a cloud in sight. People have crowded the beach, just little colorful dots against the white sand. The ocean stretches as far the horizon without any islands visible ahead,
Kendal Taylor
#13. Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine!
Jon Gordon
#15. 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
#16. [ ... ]to be real
to become fluent, natural, to cut out the detour that sweeps us around what's fundamental to events, preventing us from touching their core: the detour that makes us all second-hand and second-rate.
Tom McCarthy
#17. 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.
Jarvis Cocker
#18. 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.
Augusten Burroughs
#19. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Zig Ziglar
#20. softly spoken apology for this detour in my life was powerful in its simplicity.
Vikki Claflin
#21. Perhaps the old man had chosen to look up through - or at least around - his problems while still smiling, knowing that a detour didn't have to alter the destination, it merely changed the path.
Kathy Harris
#22. 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
#23. The number of people in the world engaged in this search for catastrophic impactors totals one or two dozen. How long into the future are you willing to protect Homo sapiens on Earth? Before you answer that question, take a detour to Arizona's Meteor Crater during your next vacation.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#24. In the end, everything happens for a reason. Paths are meant to be crossed for a higher purpose than what we realize at the moment. Life for everyone goes on. This is just a fork in the road that has taken me for a slight detour. Tomorrow I'll pick up a new map and set my sights on a new direction.
A.M. Willard
#25. Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#26. Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination.
James Arthur Ray
#27. 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
#28. We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour.
Andrew Eldritch
#29. For every failure, there's an alternative
course of action. You just have to find it.
When you come to a roadblock,
take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash
#30. Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction.
Jason Schwartzman
#31. Your steps will take you where you want them to take you. There is no such thing as unwanted detour.
Irina Serban
#32. We had strict injunctions, however, on no account to pass the falls of Reichenbach, which are about half-way up the hill, without making a small detour to see them.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#33. 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.
Joel Osteen
#34. 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 Humphrey, as quoted by Biden, p. 134
Joe Biden
#36. Never view obstacles in your path as the enemy. Rather, view any obstacles as detour signs to avoid pitfalls.
Donald L. Hicks
#37. Power among humans is not simply the physical force with which one material body may move another; it is the force to distract, detour, maneuver, and command. Every pleasure we indulge in and every pain we suffer exerts power over others.
Alphonso Lingis
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.
Kevin Gates
#41. It is always possible to approach a goal by a detour.
Theodor Reik
#42. 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.
Matthew McConaughey
#43. Want me to drive?" Wade asks. "I won't take any detours."
I slam on the brakes and come to a dead stop right in the middle of the road. "Sure. Why not? My life is one big fucking detour," I yell. Then I bang my head on the steering wheel and I can't help it. I start to cry.
Carolee Dean
#44. I don't know if I'll ever truly find my path again, but if I do, you'll always be my favorite detour.
Jewel E. Ann
#45. Life is not meant to be an interstate highway. It's a winding mountain road with hills and dips, stop signs and school zones. Let friends and family be the data for your GPS satellite feed, and never forget that sometimes an unexpected detour leads to a hidden miracle.
Emily March
#46. When the quest of a dream has a detour or dip, look beyond your dismay and go finish the trip.
Wes Fesler
#47. The detour is always rougher than the main road
Vance Havner
#48. If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.
Clay Aiken
#49. Someone Else's words can detour your potential!
John Di Lemme
#50. 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
#51. Take a detour.
Discover small towns
and friendly faces
that don't grow along the highway.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#52. The road to success can take a detour. I tell people that I don't care if they came from Yale or jail, it's what you do from today that counts.
Andy Albright
#53. Obstacles are not opposing you, but merely and gently re-routing you. It is important not to view that which stands in your way as your 'enemy.' It can often be your best friend, sending you on a detour that takes you around what would have been your biggest stumbling block.
Neale Donald Walsch
#54. I thought having a chronic illness would make my life detour in ways I didn't want to accept, but I've learnt that have a chronic illness made the only detours that are worth the growth.
Nikki Rowe
#55. Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#56. I'm not naive. I know I don't get the happily ever after. My knight in shining armor took the highway detour around this godforsaken shit hole ...
Teresa Mummert
#57. God never loses any part of our past for his future when we surrender ourselves to him. Every mistake, sin, and detour we take in the journey of life is taken by God and becomes his gift for a future of blessing.
Peter Scazzero
#58. No doubt the detour to deliver Lake had made the sheep late for an appointment.
Jeff VanderMeer
#61. Sometimes God's sudden turn in your life feels like a detour, but in actuality it is the straightest way to your destiny!
Alisa Hope Wagner
#63. One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking
a detour, an error.
Hermann Hesse
#64. The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill had a good long siesta every day during the Second World War, and he said it was the thing that enabled him to cope with the pressure.
Tom Hodgkinson
#65. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
Gregory Benford
#67. the two biggest hindrances to living the life God designed you to live: Wanting to be like others (envy), and wanting to be liked by others (people-pleasing.) These traps are subtle, but they distract and detour millions of people from the purposes they were created to fulfill.
Rick Warren
#68. I know i don't get the happily ever after. My knight and shinning armor took the highway detour around this godforsaken shit hole. I've made peace with that. That doesn't mean i'm going to lie down like a doormat and let every cocky prick in the trailer have his way with me. - White Trash Beautiful
Teresa Mummert
#69. Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home.
Shannon L. Alder
#70. Katie shrugged. "I took a detour." "Damn it, Katie. You need to be more careful. You're pregnant, remember?" "Just a second ago you were talking about jamming a spyglass up my hoo-ha. Now you're going to act protective?
Ann Charles
#71. There is no detour to holiness, Jesus came to the resurrection through the cross, not around it.
Leighton Ford
#72. Your will power is tested when reality brings you to your knees but dreams do not let you give up"- Detour to Canada.
Sunil Nair
#73. 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
#74. Dead-end roads don't mean you've come to your end, just means you need to take a different detour.
Anthony Liccione
#76. 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
#77. Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.
Lynne Truss
#78. Perfectionism is not the path that leads us to our gifts and to our sense of purpose; it's the hazardous detour.
Brene Brown
#79. A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. I'd always hated any kind of peanut butter candy. Peanut butter, in my opinion, belonged in sandwiches and nowhere else.
Morgan Matson
#83. Hey," he said smiling at me pulling off his sunglasses. "Did you get me something good?"
"I think so," I said trying to ignore how hard my heart was beating. Then before I could think about it or analyze or consider what I was doing I leaned over and kissed him.
Morgan Matson
#84. Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.
Angela N. Blount
#85. I know,' I said, thinking about the trip my mother had wanted me to take, and the trip we'd ended up taking, and how much better ours had been.
Morgan Matson
#86. It was kind of like what I imagined it would be like to drink a forest fire.
Morgan Matson
