Quotes About Lying In The Road

#1. The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

Patrick Murray

#2. You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.

Richard Price

#3. The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.

Bertrand Russell

#4. Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

Wendell Phillips

#5. And though behind you lies a road of dust and heat and discouragement, and before you the challenge and uncertainty of untried paths, in this brief hour you are master of all highways, and the universe nestles in your soul.

Max Ehrmann

#6. We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

Hannah More

#7. Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.

Ernest Bramah

#8. The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance.

Richard Price

#9. If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. God does not lie in our collective past, God lies in our collective future; the Garden of Eden is tomorrow, not yetsterday; the Golden Age lies down the road, not up it.

Ken Wilber

#11. I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organised diminution of work.

Bertrand Russell

#12. Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.

Larry Wall

#13. Road racing imitates life, the way it would be without the corruptive influence of civilization. When you see an enemy lying on the ground, what's your first reaction? To help him to his feet. In road racing, you kick him to death

Tim Krabbe

#14. The road to success is a zigzag, first pointing this way and then that. If we start with high intention, then magic and coincidence will guide us there despite our lack of knowledge about what lies ahead.

Susan Collins

#15. White in the moon the long road lies.

A.E. Housman

#16. Only one country and one system is unable to recognize our accomplishments: Russia. They make the lying claim that our road construction program is only on paper.

Fritz Todt

#17. You're walking down life's road, society's foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can't get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life.

Odetta

#18. Love is blind and little did I know, you were just another dead end road. Paved with pretty lies and broken dreams.

Julie Roberts

#19. The charm of a woodland road lies not only in its beauty but in anticipation. Around each bend may be a discovery, an adventure.

Dale Rex Coman

#20. The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

John D. Rockefeller III

#21. I wondered whether trusting him was merely unwise or if it crossed the line into recklessness, like lying down for a nap in the middle of a road.

Ransom Riggs

#22. The temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.

James Madison

#23. We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is not something to play, because race is a very dangerous political plaything.

Thomas Sowell

#24. Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through doing nothing at all.

Emily James Smith Putnam

#25. There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runstime's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain.

Edwin Muir

#26. The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

Seneca The Younger

#27. Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world.

Jodi Picoult

#28. The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast, well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.

Samuel Smiles

#29. We are keenly in sympathy with the representatives of Labour. We have too few of them in the House of Commons ... The Liberal party, high and low, have discovered, if they ever forgot it, that the real road to success ... lies in adhering to the old principles of the party.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#30. When I'm done, I contemplate lying down in the middle of the road to let a car finish me off. I'm already half-dead.

Lindsey Leavitt

#31. Lying is the royal road to chaos. As

Sam Harris

#32. When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in our future.

Richard M. Weaver

#33. The journey is long, the road is dark and frightening, but together we can reach our destination: the Tasmania of which we all dream, where all are welcome and all prosper, made no longer of lies but truth, built not of rich men's hate but our love for our island and for each other.

Richard Flanagan

#34. The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find,
Lies through their mouths or I mistake mankind.

John Wolcot

#35. Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies.

Billy Squier

#36. We've got to be explicit that the road to greater economic success does not lie in this cosy assumption that you can move from a single market through a single currency to harmonising all your taxes and then having a federal fiscal policy and then effectively having a federal State.

Gordon Brown

#37. The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.

Jeremy Collier