Quotes About Crooked Paths

#1. Richter said, 'Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.'

Og Mandino

#2. O crooked paths! Woe to the audacious soul, which hoped, by forsaking Thee, to gain some better thing!

Augustine Of Hippo

#3. Ah, yes, crooked paths often end in quicksand.

Lilli Thal

#4. Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.

Edward Everett

#5. I have a lot more things to talk about now because I'm an adult.

Emo Philips

#6. I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others.

Sue Monk Kidd

#7. God is one the paths to reach him (religions) are many - just as different rivers, originating in different mountains, traverse different paths, flowing straight or crooked, and at last join the ocean. He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls.

Swami Vivekananda

#8. Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: ... she knew there was nothing to fear.

Toni Morrison

#9. So imagination crowns the experience of my hands. And they learned their cunning from the wise hand of another, which, itself guided by imagination, led me safely in paths that I knew not, made darkness light before me, and made crooked ways straight.

Helen Keller

#10. It was like caging a panther, beautiful and dangerous - if she kept him fed, she could tame him. And if she couldn't, he would devour her until there was nothing left but bones.

Staci Hart

#11. Back then I could not understand one word of what I read.
Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot understand what you are reading you can get something from books.

Peter Hoeg

#12. It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.

Roger Staubach

#13. And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.

Vladimir Nabokov

#14. I was told that this road would take me to the ocean of death, and turned back halfway. Since then crooked, round-about, godforsaken paths stretch out before me.

Arkady Strugatsky

#15. Marketing and advertising are incredibly exciting and creative functions. They are central to the creation of brands and to the creation of sustainable competitive advantage for companies

Jim Speros

#16. The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.

Bruce Lee

#17. As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.

Swami Vivekananda