Quotes About Going Somewhere

#1. Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. I would like", she resumed, "to see the world more innocently again, more impersonally, but I have no idea how to achieve this, other than by going somewhere completely unknown where I have no identity and no associations.

Rachel Cusk

#3. In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR ... It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere, but does not greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction.

John Steinbeck

#4. But Magnus, he thought. You never told me. Never warned me it would be like this, that I would wake up one day and realize that I was going somewhere you couldn't follow. That we are essentially not the same. There's no "till death do us apart" for those who never die.

Cassandra Clare

#5. It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere.

Steve Goodier

#6. We don't go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go!

Marlon Brando

#7. I think movie making can sometimes make you lazy in your approach. Occasionally you'll be shooting a scene and it's not even your coverage but you'll catch yourself slipping away and you'll see your mind going somewhere else. But you just can't afford to do that on stage.

Jamie Bell

#8. Stay focused! Know where you are heading towards in life with your life! People going somewhere don't just go anywhere!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#9. I'm going somewhere where there aren't any women.

Osamu Dazai

#10. Relationships are teleological. They're all going somewhere and they're turning us into something, hopefully something better, something new.

Donald Miller

#11. I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place and going somewhere else instead. My older sister was openly rebellious and would tell my parents where to go, but I never did that.

Frances O'Connor

#12. Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere.

Robert Anthony

#13. Explorers tend to be the aggressive types - why else would they risk scurvy, mutiny and other bad things to go out there? So, you could say that any aliens that are actually moving and interested in going somewhere are likely to be more aggressive. But who knows?

Seth Shostak

#14. There are two types of people-anchors and motors. You want to lose the anchors and get with the motors because the motors are going somewhere and they're having more fun. The anchors will just drag you down.

Robert Wyland

#15. You have to be going somewhere to have the energy you need to get there.

Mehmet Oz

#16. The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there.

Annie Dillard

#17. It's all about money, not freedom. You think you're free? Try going somewhere without money.

Bill Hicks

#18. History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty from the ashes of world chaos. A new world is being born. A new social order will emerge when Christ comes back. A fabulous future is on the way.

Billy Graham

#19. It's all about money, not freedom, y'all, okay? Nothing to do with fuckin' freedom. If you think you're free, try going somewhere without fucking money, okay?

Bill Hicks

#20. If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Groucho Marx

#21. A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott

#22. Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was ever going somewhere, I was running!

Winston Groom

#23. Meg took a batch of forks from the drawer and turned them over and over, looking at them. "I'm all confused again." "Oh, so 'm I," Calvin said gaily. "But now at least I know we're going somewhere.

Madeleine L'Engle

#24. The movie has to be going somewhere. Other than that, you want it to be entertaining, but people usually disagree on what entertaining is and everybody has different tastes.

David Ayer

#25. Courage implies action. like you are going somewhere or going to do something. Courage. Maps.Movement

Annie F. Downs

#26. Taken as a whole, the story of Ruth is one of those signs. It was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a cliff. In all the setbacks of our lives as believers, God is plotting for our joy.

John Piper

#27. I love going somewhere like Japan where you can't understand a word of the advertising - you just see it for its aesthetic beauty, without feeling that you're being sold something.

Stanley Donwood

#28. Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency soars, our projects are completed we are going somewhere.

Michael Korda

#29. After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.

Joe Torre

#30. No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.

Edward Dahlberg

#31. Why do you gotta be going somewhere? Seems like it should be enough that we had nachos. And we got meaningful jobs. We catch bad guys. If it wasn't for us, there'd be vampires and all kinds of shit running around loose.

Janet Evanovich

#32. Being the people we are, and feeling the way that we do, getting excited about going somewhere new can be terrifying. Of course it is, I get it! But if you don't travel, you'll regret it. Your soul will forever be empty.

S.R. Crawford

#33. Meanwhile, Morris settled into his seat with his signature slouch, neither knowing nor caring where I was taking him. Like destinations, in general, were vastly overrated. And maybe they were. As long as you were moving, you were always going somewhere.

Sarah Dessen

#34. She was still going somewhere terrible, but she had a hedgehog, damnit.

T. Kingfisher

#35. It's a different thing when you go into a studio and you record with the intent of going somewhere and you're marketing yourself for that direction.

Ben E. King

#36. Happiness is estentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly.

W.H. Sheldon

#37. You look like an accident going somewhere to happen

Richard Wright

#38. There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Mark Caine

#39. It's all about money, not freedom. If you think you're free, try going somewhere without money, okay?

Bill Hicks

#40. If you're traveling for five years or something like that, you're going somewhere. But five years are being used up, and you don't have to do anything. You just sit on the plane. That might make time go really fast.

Andy Warhol

#41. Surprisingly, I don't throw away that much. I don't move forward with a lot of things unless they're going somewhere. You also have to remember that when you're working with other artists, you have to be really careful about how you deal with that stuff.

Steven Soderbergh

#42. This is my story. I don't know where I'm going, but I know I'm going somewhere beautiful, and I know I'm on my way ...
It's been a beautiful adventure. It always will be.

Charlotte Eriksson

#43. Whether that is me retiring, staying here or going somewhere else, it will be on my terms. I've made it to this point, and I felt great that I have the choice to make it for myself.

Ray Allen

#44. I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.

T.I.

#45. It was still white, and it still glowed under the moon, and the cobbles were still as rounded as old skulls, and the leaves still looked like splashes of blood across the stones, but Rhea felt better. She was still going somewhere terrible, but she had a hedgehog, dammit.

T. Kingfisher

#46. Destinations are overrated, as long as your moving, your going somewhere

Sarah Dessen

#47. Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don't know where you are going, your leadership doesn't matter.

Ken Blanchard

#48. The middle of life has these cul-de-sac days. In your twenties you think, Surely I am going somewhere, and later
as in now
you think, Nope.

Leslie Daniels

#49. The first step to going somewhere is to begin.

Debasish Mridha

#50. The thing is David is also aware of everything and it's not like you're going somewhere the director is not.

William Hurt

#51. Only one is a wanderer.
Two together are always going somewhere.

Guillaume Musso

#52. I am a traveler," he wrote, "going somewhere and to some destination...only the somewhere and the destination do not exist

Steven Naifeh

#53. Henry narrowed his eyes at me. "You going somewhere?"
"Lacrosse field trip," I said. "I enjoy whacking the hell out of people with mallets.

Robin Benway

#54. In pictures like these there are always empty shoes. It's the shoes that get to me. Sad, that innocent daily task - putting your shoes on your feet, in the firm belief that you'll be going somewhere.

Margaret Atwood

#55. You are going somewhere. Every day. Every experience you get. You're moving forward.

Jimmy Chin

#56. Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.

John C. Maxwell

#57. As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.

Xavier Dolan

#58. I travel as light as possible and usually pack in less than a minute. If I'm going somewhere hot, I throw in some flip-flops, T-shirts and shorts - but I still pack clothes that I never use.

Tom Parker Bowles

#59. I lay on my back and stared up at that unseeing, uncaring sky. I doubted God lived up there; I doubted heaven was up there, too.
God and heaven were down there on the ground, in the gardens, in the forests, in the parks, on the seashores, on the lakes, and riding the highways, going somewhere!

V.C. Andrews

#60. We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

Farley Mowat

#61. Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.

Inga Muscio

#62. And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere.

Daniel Berrigan

#63. In the end, it is not by knowledge that we make our journeys but by hope and faith: hope that our walk will be worthy of our steps and faith that we are going somewhere. And only when we come to the end of our journeys do we truly understand that every step of the way we were walking on water.

Richard Paul Evans

#64. Where there is no faith, human choices, in all their mad variety, reel back into the dark woods, or into the inextricable error of the labyrinth. But the labyrinth is intolerable. We must be going somewhere.

Anthony Esolen

#65. Later I would understand that modern industrial communities are obsessed with the importance of 'going somewhere' and 'doing something with your life'. The implication is an idea I have come to hate, that staying local and doing physical work doesn't count for much.

James Rebanks

#66. Are we going somewhere?" "To the river." "But why?" "To see what we can see." "I really d-don't think . . ." We were going to end up as newspaper headlines: Pensioner and Homosexual Found Dead in River - Coincidence, Tragedy, or Satanic Ritual Gone Wrong?

Alexis Hall

#67. What separated me from all my homeboys is the fact that I didn't get caught inside the reality. I was always dreaming about doing something else or going somewhere else.

Kendrick Lamar

#68. We are always going somewhere
else

Natasha Tsakos

#69. You are meant to be going somewhere, to be headed to a destination. The poorest person in the world is a person without a dream

Myles Munroe

#70. Jet lag depends on which direction you're going and it can be a little complicated, but there are a few different treatments. So one would be if you're going somewhere - sorry it's hard to think about it.

Shelby Harris

#71. Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?

James Hilton

#72. The Bisy Backson is always going somewhere, somewhere he hasn't been. Anywhere but where he is.

Benjamin Hoff

#73. She traveled too. She had a strict rule. One week vacation a year, relaxation on a beach. The other week of vacation, adventure. Going somewhere she could learn, see, taste, experience.

Kristen Ashley

#74. I made the same mistake that people have been making since the beginning of time, thinking that you can change yourself just by going somewhere else. Meu Deus, I sound like a self-help book.

Luiza Sauma

#75. Hello my Country I once came to tell everyone your story Your passion was my poetry And your past my most potent glory Your promise was my prayer Your hypocrisy my nightmare And your problems fill my present Are we both going somewhere?

Harry Chapin

#76. You guys are going somewhere or just going?

Jack Kerouac

#77. My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.

James MacArthur

#78. A man who has to forge his own tools, his own language, is a man who is going somewhere.

Samantha Hunt

#79. In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else.

James Dickey

#80. You want to know the problem with going somewhere no one's ever been? It takes so damned long to get there.

Dayton Ward

#81. I close my eyes and suddenly remember something Nina had told me the night before my first day of middle school: If you're going somewhere where you feel like you might not belong, the only person you need to work to convince is yourself. Everyone else is easy.

Lynn Weingarten

#82. Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one directionally, without regret or reservation.

William Herbert Sheldon

#83. And he didn't really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere, because you really have to go somewhere, don't you?

Shel Silverstein

#84. I hate the fact you always feel like you have to be going somewhere, like the end destination is to be finished, or to be happy. But the truth is a lot of us are completely lost, and we don't know, and that is also a state of mind, to not know who you are and where you're going.

Lykke Li

#85. Real life is messy because it is going somewhere. Things constantly need to be done because people are constantly growing.

Rachel Jankovic

#86. I remember feeling for the first time going somewhere where I was part of a community where I didn't feel like an outcast. I felt like I belonged. Everyone had a guitar strapped to their back.

John Petrucci

#87. What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.

Alejandro Amenabar

#88. Most religions are concerned about what happens when you die, about going somewhere better than here as a reward for faithful service or whatever you want to call it. Paganism teaches that being here is the reward, and that we need to make the most of it and leave the world a better place.

Michael Thomas Ford

#89. They hit a pothole deep enough to make her teeth snap together, and she burst out, This road reminds me of my life. It's going somewhere familiar, but every time I look up, there's a new obstacle to jump, another hole to fall in.

Christina Dodd

#90. Leadership is not about sitting and presiding, it's about a going somewhere. To be buoyant, you must not only ignite passion around a common quest, you must also mobilize your team to take a journey with you toward a common destination, or what I call a "real ambition."

Kevin Allen

#91. Are you going somewhere?" I said, regarding him timidly. The suit made him seem a different person, less melancholy and distracted, more capable - unlike the Hobie of my first visit, with his bedraggled aspect of an elegant but mistreated polar bear.

Donna Tartt

#92. All relationships are teleological, are going somewhere.

Donald Miller

#93. Going somewhere?

Rita Hestand

#94. Part of the pleasure of any kind of walking for me is the very idea of going somewhere-by foot.

Ruth Rudner

#95. I do like to walk a lot. Mostly in New York. When I'm going somewhere, I'd rather just walk there.

Bregje Heinen

#96. I don't wear any make-up on normal days and at school. But, if I'm going somewhere, I always do something with my eyes - crazy colors, sparkles. I'm all for it. I love experimenting.

Elle Fanning

#97. Meditation is not 'going somewhere;' it's diving deep here, this moment.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#98. Time is not real, so why spend lots of something that isn't real going somewhere we already are?

Kelly Corbet

#99. So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls of wherever we are. For creative sanity, I must believe that if I just do the next right thing, a path will unfold for me.

Julia Cameron

#100. Life demands movement, but we must not take any step at all! We must not take steps to any direction at all for every direction leads somewhere, but not all directions go somewhere! People going somewhere must not just take steps to anywhere!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah