Quotes About Roundabouts

#1. Washington, D.C., with its wide streets, confounding roundabouts, marble statues, Doric columns, and domes, is supposed to feel like ancient Rome (that is, if the streets of ancient Rome were lined with homeless black people, bomb-sniffing dogs, tour buses, and cherry blossoms).

Paul Beatty

#2. Australia is filled with roundabouts and everyone drives on the wrong side of the road. In the end we decided to split up the work and I feverishly watched the GPS and yelled, Left! Right! ROUNDABOUT!

Jenny Lawson

#3. Getting to No. 1 makes everyone feel better; of course it does. But it's swings and roundabouts with these things. Sometimes you make a great record, and it clicks with people. And other times it passes them by; there's nothing you can do. It's still the same record.

Paul Weller

#4. What you gain on the swings, you lose on the roundabouts.

Robert Jordan

#5. Life though, is full of compensations and I have been well blessed throughout my 'Life Journey' with good friends met and made along the way. Life is a kind of swings and roundabouts situation; if you can't kick a football you turn to other pursuits.

John McLeod

#6. 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

#7. what you loses on the swings you gain on the roundabouts

Gertrude Lawrence

#8. Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts

James Hunt

#9. Four months in the life of a seventeen-year-old is the stuff of swings and roundabouts; ... Never again in your life do you possess the capacity for such total personality overhaul.

Zadie Smith

#10. Bad business does not revolve around missing crossroads. It revolves around roundabouts.

Kevin Focke

#11. Whenever people asked "How are you?" by way of social nicety I lied through my teeth. "Not too bad," I'd say. Or "Swings and roundabouts." At least I didn't say "Fine, thanks." or "A livid scar cuts across my very being.

Julia Leigh

#12. I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly. It's swings and roundabouts.

Douglas Booth

#13. Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value, elly judgments of all kinds remain necessary.

Albert Einstein

#14. Whatever it is that happens to people after they're dead. Rejoicing in heaven, or burning in hell, or being reincarnated, or ascending another plane of consciousness, or whatever.

Meg Cabot

#15. Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.

Georges Bataille

#16. As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are. You can't say, "Oh, I'm a bad guy." How do you play that?

Denzel Washington

#17. We don't always walk from one state of mind into another. We might just oscillate back and forth for a whole lifetime within the polarities of a certain state of mind.

Frederick Lenz

#18. One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.

Dalai Lama

#19. A bride is a bride the first time around. The white dress and the white veil are symbolic. So many people are breaking the rules that people don't know what the rules are.

Letitia Baldrige

#20. When you get ... to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters.

Kristin Hannah

#21. Good action today will produce good living tomorrow.

Zig Ziglar

#22. I would count myself as a friend of Vaclav Havel.

Tom Stoppard

#23. What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

Fernand Leger

#24. Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person's resolve.

Octavia E. Butler

#25. I support the state, but not the state-run economy. The state should intervene only to create the conditions necessary for the private sector to thrive.

Abdoulaye Wade

#26. My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother.

Michel Templet