Quotes About Roads Not Taken

#1. People were mirrors turned inward to infinity, where all choices and roads not taken led to an endless shifting of self.

Ann Aguirre

#2. Rhaegar had put his hand on Jaime's shoulder. When this battle's done I mean to call a council. Changes will be made. I meant to do it long ago, but ... well, it does no good to speak of roads not taken. We shall talk when I return.

George R R Martin

#3. There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#4. I often wished that I could split myself a hundred ways and live a hundred separate lives [ ... ]. But in the end, I supposed, we only had one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.

Davy Rothbart

#5. I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost ... but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth
other poets. I want someone to mouth me.

Sylvia Plath

#6. Those more deeply informed about the period are much more cognisant of the roads not taken.

Yuval Noah Harari

#7. But it did no good to brood on lost battles and roads not taken.

George R R Martin

#8. One always wonders about roads not taken.

Warren Christopher

#9. You don't need to give reasons for the things you do- you just have to do what you want. And sometimes the thing that seems messed up to everyone else is what's right for you. You have to do it and not be ashamed of it.

Kristen Stewart

#10. I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

Rick Perlstein

#11. Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. Here, in the vanguard, beyond the borders of knowledge, science becomes even more beautiful - incandescent in the forge of nascent ideas, of intuitions, of attempts. Of roads taken and then abandoned, of enthusiasms. In the effort to imagine what has not yet been imagined. Twenty

Carlo Rovelli

#13. If you're turned away from one road, there's always another
filled with risk but also adventure. Roads less taken are always the most rewarding ones.

Max Allan Collins

#14. There is nothing more powerful as attitude.

Myles Munroe

#15. Because we cannot see the roads we have not taken, we become, by defaults, advocates for the path our life is on.

Ethan Watters

#16. Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.

Clive Barker

#17. If you would live innocently, seek solitude.

Publilius Syrus

#18. 66/ 'Two roads diverge in a yellow wood,' I think. It didn't ultimately matter which one you took; that was the real point of Frost's poem. The roads were pretty much the same. That stuff about the one less traveled making all the difference was bullshit.

Kim Addonizio

#19. Let us not demand love; it will fly away. Just feel and give love, and it will be yours.

Debasish Mridha

#20. From then on, it was even twistier B-roads through a country so photgenically rural that I half expected to meet Bilbo Baggins around the next corner - providing he'd taken to driving a Nissan Micra.

Ben Aaronovitch

#21. By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.

Elizabeth McGovern

#22. I never really acted full-time. I certainly had gotten past the point where fame and fortune was something that I was dreaming about or anticipating.

Allison Tolman

#23. The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, 'What shall we do about this?' And a nonconstructive one is one that tries to label people.

Gloria Steinem

#24. I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too.

Paul Newman

#25. And that's like my world." Annie pointed up to the stars again."Inaccecible.

Nancy Garden

#26. The word 'aloha,' in foreign use, has taken the place of every English equivalent. It is a greeting, a farewell, thanks, love, goodwill. Aloha looks at you from tidies and illuminations; it meets you on the roads and at house-doors. It is conveyed to you in letters: the air is full of it.

Isabella Bird

#27. One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.

Jim Ryun

#28. The Alpha was backing me up? Instead of Marc? Were the roads of hell slick with ice? Had pigs taken to the skies?

Rachel Vincent

#29. There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.

Robert Zoellick

#30. When comparing 100 years of experience to 1, there is a way to close the gap. One must simply understand the choices that were taken, the roads that were walked, and that there are no guarantees to an unseen future.

Lionel Suggs

#31. The meaning of life is to create meaning for your life.

Tucker Max

#32. Direct my attention to the flurry of snow outside. It's everywhere, white and crisp and completely innocent looking as it shines under the sun. It's a false innocence though, because the icy roads here have caused many accidents and taken many lives.

Jessica Sorensen

#33. Sometimes he fantasised that at the end of his life, he would be shown a home movie of all the roads he had not taken, and where they would have led.

Anne Tyler

#34. Hey!" he shouted. "This is my fucking Lake of Death. I have complete and utter exclusive rights to sailing this lake. Get the fuck off my lake!

Jeff Noon

#35. Just as books are read one word at a time, roads are taken one step at a time.

Xinran

#36. The photographs had made him aware how much the street and the buildings meant to him. Like an extended family that he'd taken for granted and ignored, assuming it would always be there. But buildings and roads and spaces were as fragile as human beings, you had to cherish them while you had them.

Rohinton Mistry

#37. There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.

D.J. MacHale