Quotes About Avenues

#1. A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression. - Author: John L. Phillips

#2. It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue. - Author: Bryan Ferry

#3. While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences. - Author: Boris Trajkovski

#4. The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it. - Author: Neil Young

#5. When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find other avenues of expression. - Author: Robby Krieger

#6. Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to beat. I shouldn't like it, but I do. I can't put my finger on it. - Author: Joe Elliott

#7. What is so interesting about giving is not only that it pays, but that it pays in such unexpected ways. When you live with generosity, blessings come to you from corners and avenues you never would have expected. - Author: Bob Burg

#8. My detractors are only accusing me of blowing up cars. What they have not realised is that my films have the potential to cross language barriers. New avenues have opened for Hindi films, and I'm proud and happy about it. - Author: Rohit Shetty

#9. I've never been much of a craftsman, in an educated way. But I think just the experience of writing makes the avenues I follow a little more efficient in some ways. At the same time, when you're young, you're a little more fearless, and there's less of an internal critic. - Author: Dave Matthews

#10. I have started down the avenue of death and depression of a new kind of flatmate. - Author: Dennis Nilsen

#11. All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged. - Author: Spiro T. Agnew

#12. Oh, Professor Lyall, are you making a funny? It doesn't suit you."
The sandy-haired Beta gave Lady Maccon a dour look. "I am exploring new personality avenues."
"Well, stop it."
"Yes, my lady. - Author: Gail Carriger

#13. Reading can break us out of the tunnel vision of the narrow specialty and lead us into many intriguing and important avenues of thought. - Author: Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#14. There is a theory that men do not need Paganism because they have endless avenues of societal power available. Why use spells when one can get a bank loan with little trouble? The world already bends over backward to accommodate men, so why perfect the art of magickally shaping it? - Author: Thomm Quackenbush

#15. Social conventions were avenues as much as barriers. - Author: John Shirley

#16. The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues. - Author: Pawan Mishra

#17. The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding. - Author: John Warnock

#18. Personally, I don't want to live with limitations. If there comes a time where I am dying to play Juliet or Macbeth, I want to make those avenues for myself. - Author: Danielle Brooks

#19. An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth. - Author: Gary Hamel

#20. Exploring the different avenues and being open to synchronicity and crazy coincidences and little things happening is part of going on your journey to investigate - and the little jewels you might find along the way, my job is to bring those back home and put them on my album. - Author: Bat For Lashes

#21. God desires and is pleased to communicate with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills, and our emotions. The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the souls of the redeemed men and women is the throbbing heart of the New Testament. - Author: Aiden Wilson Tozer

#22. Man is in a transition stage; he has 31 pairs of spinal nerves which keys him to the solar month, but the nerves in the so-called cauda-equina - literally horse-tail, at the end of our spinal cord, are still too undeveloped to act as avenues for the spiritual ray of the sun. - Author: Max Heindel

#23. Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries. - Author: Jerry Saltz

#24. Giving opens up avenues for abundance. - Author: Jen Lilley

#25. Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night. - Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel

#26. A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues. - Author: George Barr McCutcheon

#27. I always like being surprised and sort of caught off guard by other people's work. So it doesn't cause me any anxiety to explore different avenues. - Author: Joe Bradley

#28. We have to be avenues through which others can find and accept help. We have to be willing to reach out and show, not just tell, those suffering how they are not alone. Jeremy - Author: Jeremy Koch

#29. There is no better way to earn money than to do the things that you love to do. Money can flow into your experience through endless avenues. It is not the choice of the craft that limits the money that flows - but only your attitude toward money. - Author: Esther Hicks

#30. As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would venture to promise bodily health if he knew that the blood circulation was steadily growing more congested! - Author: Hugh Ferriss

#31. The Sweets rarely set foot on the avenues. They'd always lived on the street-side of town, where duct tape held everything together and WD-40 stopped the squeaks. - Author: Avery Flynn

#32. Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by ... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation. - Author: Leon Panetta

#33. Sometimes as an artist when things come easy to you, you look for other avenues that are more challenging to you and you try to walk those lanes. - Author: Nelly

#34. he knew from studying maps in preparation: the broad avenues leading to the Brandenburg Gate. He had played Bach's Brandenburg Concertos records many times, intricate magic alive in the air. The gate that led to the town of Brandenburg an der Havel. - Author: Gregory Benford

#35. If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth creation, then our nation will increasingly be in peril. - Author: Cory Booker

#36. I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better. - Author: Jada Pinkett Smith

#37. If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety. - Author: Angelina Jolie

#38. Sure. Focused. Let's totally ignore any possible other avenues and just tunnel-vision our way along. Maybe we'll get lucky and blunder into a Lamaru hangout, right? - Author: Stacia Kane

#39. Today, as in ancient Rome, when all avenues of success have been traveled and all prizes won, the final prize is the delusion of godhead. - Author: David Mamet

#40. An unrested mind is prone to wander into unfruitful avenues; it is nothing that a good night's sleep cannot cure. - Author: Diane Setterfield

#41. Writer's block to me is where you stop because you're afraid to go forward because you're not sure of what really should be happening next and you think, my gosh, if I choose this ... you've got a hundred millions of avenues you could possibly go down but it's all an assess of characters. - Author: Homer Hickam

#42. There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey. - Author: Samuel Johnson

#43. I pushed against doing a podcast for so long. I'm a very late comer to the podcast game. But you're responsibility as a comedian is to get your viewpoints out into the world, and we have a lot more avenues to do that. So it's a lot more opportunity, but really have to work all the time. - Author: Kurt Braunohler

#44. Or maybe, and I like to hope it was this one, because the truth is more intricate and less attainable than I used to understand, a bright illusive place reached by twisting back roads as often as by straight avenues, and this was the closest I could come. - Author: Tana French

#45. Avenues - television, magazines, movies, music, friends, malls, and catalogs, to name a few. A steady diet of these worldly influences will shape our view of what is valuable, what is beautiful, and what is important in life. - Author: Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#46. I can't hit some of the
real high notes I used to hit, but it makes you have to explore
different avenues. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#47. Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you. - Author: Howard Hughes

#48. I love you because
Five floor walk up
1 to the 2 to the E
Three avenues - Author: Darnell Lamont Walker

#49. Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis. - Author: Carl Jung

#50. People here are quite struck aback at Sunday's news of the capture of New Orleans. It took them three days to make up their minds to believe it. The division of American had become an idea so fixed that they had about shut out all the avenues to the reception of any other. - Author: Henry Adams

#51. You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward. - Author: Elvis Stojko

#52. Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer. - Author: B.W. Powe

#53. Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues. - Author: Cullen Hightower

#54. People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story. - Author: Jim Lehrer

#55. I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action. - Author: Mark Tobey

#56. I'll give you a choice. Kill me."
"By definition 'choice' mandates a minimum of two possible avenues of action."
"I wasn't done. Or kiss me. But do one or the other. Before I do one or the other to you. - Author: Karen Marie Moning

#57. That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened. - Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#58. Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference. - Author: Bruce Mau

#59. An Authorpreneur focuses on establishing one's brand to the consumer using different avenues to promote their work. - Author: Geraldine Solon

#60. The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but a spiritual sense. - Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#61. In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas. - Author: Elizabeth Kenny

#62. Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes. - Author: Susan Sontag

#63. He welcomed challenges; they kept him sharp, showed that he was approachable, and oftentimes made him explore avenues previously unthought-of. - Author: Christie Golden

#64. When will world leaders learn that you can never obtain peace by using war and aggression. They must find other avenues that will lead humanity to peace. - Author: Timothy Pina

#65. The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstructions in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought so far to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind. - Author: David Hume

#66. I picked up On The Road, Howl, and Naked Lunch (in that order) in high school. I was blown away. The writing was amazing and the places it took me was even more far out. It opened up new avenues of thinking for me and so I went down the beaten road. - Author: Yony Leyser

#67. No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will. - Author: Blaise Pascal

#68. No, by God, it is false! It wasn't a minuet that we stepped; it was a prison - a prison full of screaming hysterics, tied down so that they might not outsound the rolling of our carriage wheels as we went along the shaded avenues of the Taunus Wald. - Author: Ford Madox Ford

#69. I have had a hard time settling on one medium and feel like a dilettante at times, taking up one medium and then wanting to learn to work in another. At age 76, I really don't have the time to settle down to one medium when there are so many avenues to explore. - Author: Nancy Johnson

#70. We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on. - Author: Jon Bon Jovi

#71. A lot of young girls don't realise how diverse the career opportunities are in games development. Many think that you need elite math skills and a vast knowledge of all things tech to work in games, and haven't thought about avenues like design, producing, art, writing or composing. - Author: Rhianna Pratchett

#72. I just want to open up the avenues for people to express themselves. That's what the media ought to be. It shouldn't just be a conveyer belt of shiny products to buy. It should be a way that we're all communicating and understanding each other. - Author: Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#73. It seems that everywhere I go, people want the same things - security, education, family. It's just that so many people have no avenues through which to obtain these things. - Author: Brandon Stanton

#74. Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening, staying active and being creative so that when opportunities do come up, you are in a position to take advantage of them. - Author: Tom Irwin

#75. Understand your driving force, whether you're operating out of fear or love. When we operate in fear, we tend to hold back and not get the most from life. When we operate in love, we open new avenues and experience life more abundantly. - Author: Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#76. I feel we all have a stake in our community as much as we do in our own spirits, and seeking avenues of generosity is the direct path to peace among us. - Author: Shari Arison

#77. If you try too carefully to plan your life, the danger is that you will succeed-succeed in narrowing your options, closing off avenues of adventure that cannot now be imagined. - Author: Harlan Cleveland

#78. So the avenues we walk down,
full of bodies wearing faces,
are full of hidden talent:
enough to make pianos moan,
sidewalks split,
streetlights deliriously flicker. - Author: Tony Hoagland

#79. Old age must have endless avenues, stretching away and away down its darkness, she supposed, and now one door opened and then another. - Author: Virginia Woolf

#80. The tumults of time are oft passed by in records of the private memoirist; for our days consist not of the Senatorial speech and the refracted solar beam cast through heroic cloud, but rather of bread eaten, and ink blotted, and talk of the sermon, and walks along the whiskery avenues in the garden. - Author: M T Anderson

#81. I'm glad I made business investments, because it gave me the confidence financially to make brave choices. If I hadn't done that, I'd still have been trying to play 19-year-olds in films. I know there are other avenues for me. - Author: Preity Zinta

#82. With the explosion of the internet has come numerous avenues for small business owners to share their expertise and position themselves as experts. And expertise is what consumers are looking for. - Author: Diane Helbig

#83. Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the streets were flooded and the subways drowned, only the Goldman Sachs building sparkling above the darkened avenues. - Author: Cathleen Schine

#84. I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues. - Author: Flavor Flav

#85. Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really study photography and cinematography, and the language of visual storytelling. - Author: Tom Verica

#86. What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession. - Author: Neil Peart

#87. It is so important to remember that, while I love my job, there are other fantastic avenues to explore in my life. - Author: Rose McIver

#88. Regular meditation opens the avenues of
intuitional knowledge,
makes the mind calm and steady,
awakens an ecstatic feeling,
and brings the practitioner in contact
with the source of his/her very being. - Author: Sivananda

#89. Gut reaction is not always God's path. What feels right at the moment has nearly led me down some wrong avenues. - Author: Cindy McCormick Martinusen

#90. Seeking the counsel of trusted and respected health professionals can also be helpful in providing parents with some balance for their concerns as well as other avenues of support. - Author: Timothy Carey

#91. How he described the bookshop: where the streets of the world meet the avenues of the mind. - Author: Jen Campbell

#92. I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player. - Author: Chad Smith

#93. I don't look at money as success. I look at it as an avenue to freedom. - Author: Scooter Braun

#94. Painters must want to paint above all else. If the artist in front of the canvas begins to wonder how much he will sell it for, or what the critics will think of it, he won't be able to pursue original avenues. Creative achievements depend on single-minded immersion. - Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#95. The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce approbation and a desire of imitation, as avenues may be found for truth to the knowledge of nations. - Author: James Madison

#96. A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avernus! - Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#97. When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing the darkness, etch familiar landmarks in silver against a velvet sky. Unsuspected definition of form and contour is revealed. - Author: Volkmar Wentzel

#98. The avenues he had taken as a young man had pretty much dictated what the remaining years of his life would be like. - Author: David Baldacci

#99. The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful lake. Our line of defense is a natural one and can be maintained with a minimum of military effort and expense. - Author: Douglas MacArthur

#100. What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed against them. If poor, they must drudge for a mere pittance if of the wealthy classes, they must be dressed dolls of fashion parlor puppets ... - Author: Ernestine Rose