Top 100 Quotes About Going Nowhere

#1. Attitude determines your altitude, if you have a bad attitude, even if you are way up there, you will come crashing down, and if you are still trying to take off, a bad attitude, will keep you on the ground, revving your engines but going nowhere.

Strive Masiyiwa

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#2. To discover your real questions, simply take a time-out. Stop looking ahead of yourself at where you're going or backward at where you've been. When you do stop, there's a sense of going nowhere. There's a sense of gap, which is a tremendous relief. You can simply breathe and be who you are.

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

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#3. I always think back to my high school days and realize all the people who were so popular then are nowhere now and all the people who were steadfast and steady-going are somewhere. So high school doesn't necessarily translate to later in life.

Steve Martin

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#4. No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed- to go nowhere.

Jacques Ellul

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#5. Where are you going?" Turing had asked.
"Nowhere."
"Me too.

David Lagercrantz

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#6. Like a car idling, I gave of my energy until there was nothing more in my tank to give... all the while going nowhere.

Kate McGahan

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#7. Things come out of nowhere, and you start evaluating the director, the cast, and all those other things going into it.

Richard Gere

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#8. I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket.

Ice Cube

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#9. Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel.

Barbara Kingsolver

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#10. They were always on the move.But in truth said bull we are all going nowhere

Kate DiCamillo

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#11. I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

Kevin J. Anderson

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#12. When you're heading into Anzac cove you are going into this battle situation staring into the sun. So, any movement in that water, any glint is going to be seen for miles away. Even in the first rays of dawn, there's nowhere to hide.

Russell Crowe

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#13. I sometimes wonder if it's just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they're supposed to be by going nowhere.

Jodi Picoult

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#14. Sun-struck,
stuck in mid tropic strut, it sometimes stands
as if considering how to cool avian plastic,
dive into the mown lagoon of lawn;
how take flight on dayglow flap-
doodle wings, no matter
if it is ball-bald going nowhere fast.

Joyce Thomas

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#15. A million miles from nowhere, is better than going nowhere, a million times.

Anthony Liccione

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#16. You're a Nought and I'm a Cross and there's nowhere for us to be, nowhere for us to go where we'd be left in peace ... That's why I started crying. That's why I couldn't stop. For all the things we might've had and all the things we're never going to have.

Malorie Blackman

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#17. But in truth,' said Bull, 'we are going nowhere. That my friend, is the irony of our constant movement.

Kate DiCamillo

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#18. Nowhere in the Bible, Koran, or Torah does it say, "If you curse, then you're going to hell." But everywhere it says that if you kill, you're going to wherever they send you, depending on the religion.

Russell Simmons

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#19. Well, I'm British. I'm proud to be British and I love this country. I'm going nowhere.

Jay Kay

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#20. Focus on people more than money. Without employees and customers, you're going nowhere. Make sure you never stop thinking about the customer's perspective. And make sure you have the right people at the helm of each area.

David Green

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#21. If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Henry A. Kissinger

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#22. A marriage takes work. You have to constantly put energy into it to keep it from falling apart. Going nowhere takes energy. Stability isn't what you get when you do nothing. It's what you can hope to achieve when you work hard.

Joshua Edward Smith

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#23. I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you don't set goals, then you have nowhere to go.

Taylor Lautner

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#24. But I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, and I am much better at being a mother than I ever would have been as a lawyer. I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere. - My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult

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#25. There is a park that is known 4 the face it attracts colorful people whose hair On 1 side is swept back The smile on their faces It speaks of profound inner peace Ask where they're going They'll tell U nowhere They've taken a lifetime lease On Paisley Park.

Prince

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#26. At first, he only continues walking. Only when I look down on our feet do I realize that we're actually going nowhere. It's the world that moves - the streets, the air, and the dark patches of inner sky.

Markus Zusak

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#27. We listened patiently to Lester, words skittering out of his mouth like cartoon dogs on fresh-waxed linoleum, frantically going nowhere.

Amy Tan

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#28. Some days 'staying put' might feel the same as Going Nowhere.
Make a cup of tea, and wait for that feeling to pass.

Vivian Swift

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#29. I was brought up, and my sister too, with two people who were always saying, "What you do is really nowhere near as important as the things that are going on in the world, and if your work needs to reflect that, or you want it to, then you need to strive for a certain type of excellence."

Jake Gyllenhaal

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#30. I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

Adam Oates

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#31. This sort of obsessing would get him nowhere. He needed to move on, to get going, to look forward.

Jodi Picoult

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#32. Mom stood over the still thrashing ghost with the bat and brought it down on its head again and again. "Leave him alone, leave my family alone!" she screamed. "We are not going to die in a stupid gas station in the middle of nowhere!

C.A. Marshall

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#33. We are ants on the carcass of the world, spawned out of nothing, going busily nowhere. One of us dies, the others crawl over us to the pickings.

Morris L. West

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#34. I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.

Andrew Sullivan

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#35. Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

G.I. Gurdjieff

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#36. Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk.

Kenneth Grahame

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#37. It's not that he was going nowhere, it's that he'd already arrived.

Janet Fitch

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#38. The music's still going, going absolutely nowhere, like Philip Glass on Quaaludes.

David Foster Wallace

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#39. If we don't create private sector jobs and just - just creating public sector jobs, we're going nowhere. This is a bad game. You've got to have innovation. You've got to have tax policies that support innovation.

Jack Welch

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#40. Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.

Bob Dylan

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#41. Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.

Al McGuire

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#42. John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.

Paul Johnson

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#43. In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there's nowhere to put my drink, no cup holder. And I'm not going to lie, it looks pretentious. I used to think it was cool to, like, drive it to dinner. Now? Like I really need to be looked at any more.

Danica Patrick

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#44. You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written that beginning, you have nowhere to go.

Neil Gaiman

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#45. We were all the same. Kids from nowhere going nowhere. He always saw a light through the darkness. Knew the cracks let that light in, and that those cracks could suck you up.

Dito Montiel

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#46. Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were - that seemed so odd at the time, with "Satanic Verses," because we didn't have any context for this. You know, where did that come from? It seemed to come out of nowhere.

Salman Rushdie

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#47. Cool hands grasped my shoulders and tried to pull me away from Camdus, but I wouldn't have it. I was going nowhere. I clutched his shoulders, breathing him in. I was determined to stay with my husband no matter what. They would have to pry me away. And then someone did.

Courtney Cole

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#48. I worked thirteen years, got me nowhere. I feel like I tried it their way, and to hell with them. Now I'm going to try it my way.

Lee Child

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#49. Life is a bridge starting from nowhere going to nowhere. We must find a way to remain on the bridge, inside the existence!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#50. Sharon had moved to Springdale in November of our senior year. She just appeared out of nowhere in four of my classes ... I couldn't stop staring at her. I had this weird feeling she was going to be important.

Tom Perrotta

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#51. The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought it was going to change the way we live and it just faded away. Wait a minute, I'm talking about President Obama.

Craig Ferguson

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#52. I turned to love and love said, Don't trip, I'm still here and stop trying to fool yourself, I ain't going nowhere. You'll always have me.

Stanley Christopher

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#53. Down below people were clipping by going nowhere fast. You could feel the long despairing history of the place. You could actually hear it, a low hum like the buzz of a sick bee that resonated with the fragments of a million broken dreams.

Sol Luckman

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#54. Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

A.A. Milne

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#55. Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job.

Paul Davies

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#56. So you do believe in ... true love? she whispered.
I took a deep breath, I think I have to, I said, blinking back tears. Without it, we're all going nowhere.

Juliet Marillier

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#57. Where are you going?" I asked.
"The middle of nowhere."
"I thought this was it."
"Nah." You shook your head. "This is just the edge.

Lucy Christopher

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#58. Walking around an early spring garden- going nowhere.

Kyoshi Takahama

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#59. The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there.

Dale Carnegie

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#60. It seems like the more I live, the more I realize that saying 'yes' is almost never a mistake. If you say no, it might feel safe, but then you end up going nowhere.

Noah Emmerich

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#61. If you're going to do something, do something that matters. Don't waste your time doing stupid things with even bigger losers going nowhere.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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#62. I find myself staring at the goldfish. Bright as a penny, he swims in circles, happy to be going nowhere.

Jodi Picoult

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#63. What needed to stop was the succession of dates with these relatively impressive, relatively interesting people, when I could tell from the first minute that everyone here was going to end as a runner-up in a long race to nowhere in particular, broken-down, exhausted, no one wearing a medal.

B.J. Novak

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#64. Love you too Chess. You got that aye? Ain't you know it? Love you right, till it hurts. Ain't going nowhere ... ... ... ...

Stacia Kane

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#65. It's a sad place, but then I seem to find most places sad, and maybe it's me who's sad and not the places after all. Maybe there's nowhere I can go, and no point in going.

Sara Baume

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#66. And as he walked through the snow his footsteps disappeared behind him. He felt at that moment that he was coming from nowhere and going nowhere, that life isn't a dream or a fantasy, it is a long trudge through falling snow.

Chloe Thurlow

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#67. You have to be able to decide, 'Well no, I'm not going to be violent, I'm going to suppress that impulse; I'm not going to be greedy.' Unless you're able to do that you're stuck with adversarial politics that leads nowhere and creates ever greater violence.

Pankaj Mishra

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#68. We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.

Tina Weymouth

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#69. I'm seeing too many geeky, nerdy kids get addicted to video games and they're going nowhere. It's making me crazy.

Temple Grandin

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#70. When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.

Bob Newhart

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#71. Love Is Louder is a movement that is hopefully going to bring some awareness and make some noise when it comes to teens who are feeling suicidal or even just sad, outcasts, and being bullied, and really feel like they have nowhere to turn to.

Brittany Snow

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#72. I cross my arms. 'Seriously? That's the answer you're going with? First quantum physics and now nowhere and everywhere?

Wendy Mass

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#73. I left 'Dr Who' after 18 months, as my character was going nowhere. In truth, I wished I had never gone into it. Afterwards, all the scripts that came my way were for 15-year olds.

Carole Ann Ford

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#74. I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.

Shaun Hick

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#75. When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.

Harry Chapin

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#76. We'll have a part and it's clearing up, so you think something is going to happen and it totally stops and does something completely different and then the part you thought was going to happen comes out of completely nowhere.

Austin Carlile

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#77. You see ... it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?

Norton Juster

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#78. The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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#79. Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the market economy, he understands morality as that which is conducive to increased activity. The important thing is to keep going.

Philip Rieff

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#80. Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

Paul Auster

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#81. You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere.

David Edwards

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#82. Don't be afraid of the dark roads or the roads that look unsafe, the roads that look going to nowhere, the roads that look leading to the precipices! Have some courage, then the road will look different, it will look better, it will look brighter and much less dangerous!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#83. With thousands of roads before us that lead nowhere, going in circles. There really are only two roads we will either travel, one going to heaven, or the other to hell.

Anthony Liccione

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#84. Going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere

Gary Soto

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#85. Ibiza, if you've never been there before, is very overwhelming. It's like nowhere on earth. The best advice is to sleep as late as possible because nothing gets going until around 3am and it goes until like 7 or 8.

Paris Hilton

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#86. God is in you. GOD. IS. IN. YOU. There is nowhere to go, nothing to fill up, nothing to seek, there is only going inside

Marianne Williamson

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#87. Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.

David Edwards

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#88. Oh, for the god of love, where did time go? [Clockwise swirl going nowhere.]

Lauren Groff

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#89. I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.

Rachel Roy

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#90. Who would have known
That a boy like him
Would have entered me lightly
Restoring my blisses
Who would have known
That a boy like him
After sharing my core
Would stay going nowhere

Bjork

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#91. seems like a lot of trouble for a boat that's going nowhere.

Cath Crowley

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#92. Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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#93. It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#94. Saying that everything is fine or that it will never get any better are ways of going nowhere or of making it impossible to go anywhere. Either approach implies that there is no road out or that, if there is, you don't need to or can't go down it.

Rebecca Solnit

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#95. If you lie down and let somebody kick you, you're never going to get nowhere. You have to stand up.

Sonny Barger

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#96. One-way ticket nowhere there's no windows on his train.
Can't see where I'm headed but I'm going there again.

Dave Mustaine

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#97. I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

Kate DiCamillo

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#98. An ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.

Sharon Salzberg

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#99. There's nowhere like home for me, but there has been something so interesting about most of the places I've visited. One that sticks out in my mind is traveling around South America. It's a huge continent, and I only got to see a small portion of it, but I've always liked going there.

Brittany Bowe

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#100. Without aspirations for a better existence, you're stuck in the mud and going nowhere.

Kimora Lee Simmons

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