Top 100 Quotes About Detours
#1. God, You direct my steps. Although the path may lead me through dark valleys or appear to take unnecessary detours, I believe that one day I will look back and discover that your way was perfect. I put my future in your hands.
Amy E. Mason
#2. I came into the world under the sign of Saturn
the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.
Walter Benjamin
#3. There will always be detours in the fascinating game called life. Find the path to your heart's desires, and stay on course.
Elizabeth Parker
#4. And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there, but it's not meant to be shocking or telltale.
Kim Novak
#5. If only certain things had been preventable, his life would have unfurled in front of him as intended, like a lush Oriental carpet. No surprises, no detours. Just a thick tapestry of days and nights that at the end of his time on earth, he could roll up and proudly claim as his own.
Shilpa Agarwal
#6. Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).
Seth Godin
#7. If a poem is concentrated, a closed fist, then a novel is relaxed and expansive, an open hand: it has roads, detours, destinations; a heart line, a head line; morals and money come into it. Where the fist excludes and stuns, the open hand can touch and encompass a great deal in its travels.
Sylvia Plath
#8. I've learned to stay the course. There are no shortcuts. No detours. They take you further away from your goal.
Irene Fantopoulos
#9. I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a journey. Drives are an adventure because I don't plan them too carefully. I take detours depending on how I feel and usually stop and stay at places I like the look of.
Rick Astley
#10. Some of the steps you take may end up being detours or out-and-out mistakes. By staying focused on your vision, though, you'll find even those steps useful in the creating process.
David Emerald Womeldorff
#11. The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.
John Piper
#12. There are no mistakes, I realize - just detours whose significance only become clear when you see the whole picture at once.
Hilary T. Smith
#13. But all this happened for one basic reason: no matter how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis.
Paulo Coelho
#14. When the storms do come; you can only allow them to slow you down, but don't let them stop you, there will be delays, detours, and disappointments but you have to keep pushing through it.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#15. When journeying with God some of the best parts of any pilgrimage are the detours.
Margaret Feinberg
#16. In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.
Mason Cooley
#18. 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
#19. believe we each have our own path to travel. Sometimes we make false starts and detours, but we have this internal compass that knows our true path. We just have to listen to it." He
Theresa Rizzo
#20. There are no dead ends, just detours.
J.D. Robb
#21. Trust reverses the detours of adversity into highways of destiny.
Beth Moore
#22. In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions - but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey.
Richard Paul Evans
#23. Sometimes when we're focused on quickly getting to our destination, we'll encounter unexpected roadblocks and detours. Always remember that there's more than one path that will lead you to where you're going. Who knows? You might just enjoy that new, more scenic route!
Clifton Anderson
#24. Second thoughts have aborted more dreams than all the difficult circumstances, overwhelming obstacles, and dangerous detours fate ever could throw at you.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#25. We can make detours with our mind but we can't distract the truth from our heart.
Nikki Rowe
#26. A person's life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened.
Albert Camus
#27. The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.
Carl Jung
#29. The creative road is a tough one to follow. There are many bumps and detours we hit before arriving at the end of our journey
Tonesha Reese
#30. Your path will change. Your destiny never will."
"But what if I'm on the wrong path?"
"There is no wrong path. Not when it comes to destiny. There are only detours, you see.
Lauren Miller
#31. 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
#32. A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert Camus
#33. Somehow, even with all the roadblocks and detours and one-way streets, Mark managed to find his way to Maggie.
Lisa Kleypas
#34. The most fulfilling adventures happen when you start your journey without knowing where you're going, because only then are you free to experience the unexpected detours you're meant to take.
A.J. Darkholme
#35. The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.
Ernest Becker
#36. Do you feel disappointed because something you planned didn't work out If so you can get re-appointed today. In God there are never any dead-ends only detours. Don't ever give up. Just keep trying until you succeed.
Joyce Meyer
#37. The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures." There is a rhetoric of walking. The art of "turning" phrases finds an equivalent in an art of composing a path.
Michel De Certeau
#38. Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.
Laozi
#39. But that's how it is on a sailing ship, and in this respect its journey parallels that of life: simply knowing where you want to go isn't enough, because life is a windblown voyage, consisting mainly of the detours imposed by alternating calm and storm.
Carsten Jensen
#40. Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks
Oprah Winfrey
#41. There are no maps for the unexpected detours and unmarked paths we face in life.
Steve Knox
#42. Either way Reacher figured he might as well find out. He had no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so detours cost him nothing.
Lee Child
#43. Do you see the labyrinth out there?" She waved a graceful hand toward the garden. "Life is like that labyrinth, full of pathways that seem like the right way, but end up being detours. We go one way and then another until we find our true path.
Belinda M. Gordon
#44. If she'd learned nothing else, it was that sometimes things don't always work out the way anyone planned. Roundabouts and detours in life were often blessings in disguise.
Leah Atwood
#45. From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of a writer's thought.
Mina P. Shaughnessy
#46. Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely reach it, after no matter how many detours and deceptions and abandonings of hope. And hope could never have been entirely abandoned, even in the worst days.
Margaret Drabble
#47. In the armed forces, the chances of success are quite high. That's due to the clarity of the military structure - everything is sketched out. In politics, there are many more surprises and detours, and it's a lot more unpredictable.
Abdel Fattah El-Sisi
#48. I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view.
Michael York
#50. detours in the road. Because without them, this life
Sarah Jio
#51. I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
Rachel Ward
#52. Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#53. People meant to be together will always take detours through pain, misunderstanding and pride, but some how they always drift back to the one thing that makes them feel alive.
Shannon L. Alder
#54. Excuses are just detours to the truth. The truth will always be the truth.
Ann Marie Frohoff
#55. Life may be nothing but a series of detours.
Marty Rubin
#56. God is in control. He may not take away trials or make detours for us, but He strengthens us through them.
Billy Graham
#57. Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
Doug Larson
#58. Sometimes
she knows this from her own life
to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#59. One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.
John C. Maxwell
#60. What appalled Schiller about these libraries was that they featured nothing off the beaten track: no tattered paperbacks; no evidence of distinctive personal interests; no tokens of long intellectual detours passionately explored.
Brian Morton
#61. I don't believe everything "is meant to be." I believe God wants to direct our steps, but our free will makes for a lot of detours.
Kirstin Leigh
#62. There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion that's invested into the song come through in the recording.
Beck
#63. In this manner , we are told, the system of the imaginary is spread circularly, by detours and returns the length of an empty subject.
Roland Barthes
#64. Time does not give one much leeway: it thrusts us forward from behind, blows us through the narrow tunnel of the present into the future. But space is broad, teeming with possibilities, positions, intersections, passages, detours, U-turns, dead-ends, one-way streets. Too many possibilities, indeed.
Susan Sontag
#65. Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.
Angela N. Blount
#66. You should enjoy the little detours to the fullest. Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want.
Yoshihiro Togashi
#67. Being taken seriously means missing out on the chance to be frivolous, promiscuous, and irrelevant. The desire to be taken seriously is precisely what compels people to follow the tried and true paths of knowledge production around which I would like to map a few detours.
J. Jack Halberstam
#68. Those whose purpose does not match yours are not wrong; they have their mission, and finding their own purposeful way may involve many detours and acts that seem destructive.
Wayne Dyer
#70. We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination
Paulo Coelho
#71. It's quite simple, just follow the dotted line," the Planmaker explained. "Don't let any bad idea lead you astray. Don't let them persuade you to take a short cut or take one yourself. Life is a winding path. One sometimes has to make detours. That's my humble opinion, anyway.
Walter Moers
#72. So I float in silence, watching the final touches of this perfect moonrise, and in a moment of heavenly revelation, it occurs to me that detours are not without purpose. They provide safe passage to a destination, avoiding pitfalls in the process.
David Arnold
#74. You'll be really sorry of you try to bypass all the detours. You don't want to get to your destination and not remember anything about the trip.
Gwen Hayes
#75. We all go through periods of anguish, times when we think we can't face what lies ahead. But the only way to get past it is to go through it, straight through it. No detours, no camouflage, no running. You have to meet problems head-on, despite the pain.
Diana Palmer
#76. Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.
Sheryl Crow
#77. 'The Names' is planned as a nine-part series. I have a kind of road map: I know the final scene of episode nine. But as to exactly how we get there, what detours or horrible accidents we might have to pass through, I like to keep that a little fluid.
Peter Milligan
#78. Take those road hazards- the potholes, ruts, detours, and all the rest- as evidence that you were on the right route. It's when you find yourself on that big, broad, easy road that you ought to worry.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#79. This stupid infatuation had to stop. I was Trina Clemons, future valedictorian of Sky Ridge High. I had plans. Plans that didn't involve any detours with slacker party boys who wore shoelaces in their hair.
Lisa Brown Roberts
#80. I believe that on any trip to heaven, there are always detours
through hell.
Richard Finney
#81. Sometimes the journey to love involves some bumpy detours, as any girl with an - ex-fiance will tell you. But I've learned a smooth trip isn't particularly important. Getting there is what matters.
Samanthe Beck
#82. No matter how many wrong turns we've taken and no matter how many detours we've been down, it's God's grace that gets us back onto the parade route.
Mark Batterson
#83. Never give up! People don't understand how persistent you have to be. You come up against an obstacle and you have to find a way of moving forward. You take detours, navigate between the obstacles and make it happen. Unless you are very strong and convinced you can succeed, you will be swept away.
Frank Lowy
#84. To them, it is a journey that has twists, turns, bumps and possibly detours, but no end. There are no exit ramps. And they don't care. They are too busy having fun.
Shonda Rhimes
#85. 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
#86. We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours. Alan Christoffersen's diary
Richard Paul Evans
#87. In the moment, you most likely won't know how valuable such detours will prove to be, but life has a way of revealing the hidden magic in these moments down the road at the appropriate time.
Shannon Ables
#88. The ability to forge a unique path with occasional dips, detours, and even dead ends presents a better chance for fulfillment. Plus, a jungle gym provides great views for many people, not just those at the top. On a ladder, most climbers are stuck staring at the butt of the person above.
Sheryl Sandberg
#89. An unanticipated destination, perhaps, but you must admit,all the best journeys take unexpected detours.
Lisa Mangum
#90. On the road to nowhere there are many people who lack the vision to get you anywhere.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#91. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
Bill Watterson
#92. The detour is always rougher than the main road
Vance Havner
#94. 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
#95. There is no detour to holiness, Jesus came to the resurrection through the cross, not around it.
Leighton Ford
#96. You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
Bill Watterson
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine!
Jon Gordon
#100. Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
William Arthur Ward
