Quotes About Straying

#1. Unfortunately, I'll need to watch them again at some point, because my mind keeps straying back to reality. I envy Deo's ability to lose himself in fantasy for a while. That type of break seems almost as useful as sleep for keeping stress at bay, and I've never really mastered it.

Rysa Walker

#2. China frequently confounds stock market prognosticators because it has a penchant for straying markedly from other broad global indexes year-by-year over the decades - even from emerging markets. It's hit or miss.

Kenneth Fisher

#3. If you kill me, you will lose your soul and your son to the sky," I warned, my eyes straying briefly to his young son who met my gaze, his hands clinging to the mane of his enormous horse. "Kneel!

Amy Harmon

#4. Julia, you are incomparable. I know what I risk in straying from you, what I would lose if you left me. I promise to never ...

Alessandra Torre

#5. If I had just a little bit of wisdom I should walk the great path and fear only straying from it.

Lao-Tzu

#6. To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. My life vows destined to be spent in the light irradiating from the tabernacle, and it is to the Heart of Jesus that I dare go for the solution of all my problems

Pope John XXIII

#7. Being creative and playing with your content during the holidays is a great idea. But straying too far from your fundamental brand (from address, logo, etc.) can be a dangerous game. Your recipients need to be able to recognize you during this busy time of year.

Paul Ford

#8. When asked out, I am hesitant, my glance straying to the beeefy, 400-page mystery thriller lounging seductively on the nightstand next to my bed, with come hither eyes that promise an exciting evening of one climax after another. Never had a chance. Staying in Saturday night.

Ava Zavora

#9. When sex was something godlike, Lust was the profane curiosity that killed many a straying cat. Now, having removed mystery, Lust is less a long-standing, overpowering yearning, more a sudden craving of the appetite. Less quest, more impulse buy.

Geoffrey Wood

#10. Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come!

Rumi

#11. Jesus did not use hell to try and compel "heathens" and "pagans" to believe in God, so they wouldn't burn when they die. He talked about hell to very religious people to warn them about the consequences of straying from their God-given calling and identity to show the world God's love.

Rob Bell

#12. For all its faults, it is partisanship - based on core principles- that clarifies our debates, that prevents one party from straying too far from the mainstream and that constantly refreshes our politics with new ideas and new leaders.

Tom DeLay

#13. I know that I'll forever be involved in ballet. This is where my life was meant to be, and I don't see myself straying completely away, ever.

Misty Copeland

#14. We are therefore constantly on the road, straying from one mental image to the next, and identify with these images, and derive our identity from the images.

Frank M. Wanderer

#15. The greater evil who is in-
When both in wayward paths are straying?
The poor sinner for the pain
Or he who pays for the sin?

Juana Ines De La Cruz

#16. Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

Lenny Bruce

#17. Are we not plunging continually? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there still any up or down? Are we not straying, as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. Love and meekness, lord,
Become a churchman better than ambition:
Win straying souls with modesty again,
Cast none away.

William Shakespeare

#19. Aware of her uneasy gaze straying to his rampant arousal, Sebastian shot her a scornful glance.
"Pay it no mind," he said, climbing into bed with her. "From now on, I have every expectation that proximity to you will affect my private parts like a prolonged swim in a Siberian lake.

Lisa Kleypas

#20. For being human, we remember and forget. We stray and return, fall down and get up, and cling and let go, again and again. But it is this straying and returning that makes life interesting, this clinging and letting go - damned as it is - that exercises the heart.

Mark Nepo

#21. We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.

Daniel Quinn

#22. People have a lot less leniency for some reason for women straying from a relationship than they do for men.

Jason Segel

#23. The hand at her back stroked up and down. Never straying too far south, but igniting a fire inside her that she wanted this fireman to stoke instead of extinguish

Tamara Hoffa

#24. Their heart does not allow them to practise duplicity: if they see their friend straying from the road, or committing any faults, they will speak to her about it; they cannot allow themselves to do anything else.

Teresa Of Avila

#25. The Canarsie People said the knowing belongs to the old and wise, but the unfolding is in the keeping of the young. The old prevent the young from straying off the path of wisdom. The young yearn after the path of dreams. Between the two there is truth.

Beverly Swerling

#26. You were crying. It's a terrible thing, loving the sea."
"Yes," she whispered, her eyes straying to it. Waves gathered and broke invisibly in the dark, reaching toward her, pulling back. They were never silent, they never spoke.

Patricia A. McKillip

#27. Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

Drew Curtis

#28. 25For i you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to j the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Anonymous

#29. I understand why there would be prohibitions on straying from monogamy because of the harm that it does not only to the person who is betrayed, but also to the person who is betraying. "Betray" is a sort of shorthand for what happens.

Andrew Solomon

#30. O! Will you be staying,
Or will you be flying?
Your ponies are straying!
The daylight is dying!
To fly would be folly,
To stay would be jolly
And listen and hark
Till the end of the dark
to our tune
ha! ha!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#31. The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

Rabindranath Tagore

#32. Saw the power of the darkness. Saw that, in fact, I had strayed and that I was a stray and that from the wild places my straying had brought me, I knew things I couldn't have known before.

Cheryl Strayed

#33. I think you're very lucky to find somebody you can coexist with without straying or going mad or being angry. That's whether you're Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton, Robbie Williams and Ayda Field, or Tim and June from down the road.

Robbie Williams

#34. Self-correction makes me check the ruler of my life against the yardstick of my inner voice. I acknowledge when I don't measure up. Self-correction is an ongoing process. If done often enough, I can stop myself from straying off the path.

Stella Payton

#35. Aren't we straying as though through an infinite nothing? Isn't empty space breathing at us?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#36. THE WOLF AND THE LAMB A Wolf came upon a Lamb straying from the flock,

Aesop

#37. I wonder if you're fast as they say," Bessie Weasel chirruped, her hand slowly straying toward the belt.
"Wondering is free," Cinnabar said finally, his voice soft and low. "Certainty has its price".

Daniel Polansky

#38. Even in the wood, there was a right road and a wrong one. All the most terrifying fairy tales inevitably began with some foolish innocent (or two) straying from the path. Then anything might happen.

Robert Dunbar

#39. As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Gautama Buddha

#40. It was the straying that found the path direct.

Austin Osman Spare

#41. The cat's tail was straying into her face again; she was forced to expel air in a most unbecoming fashion to avoid a mouthful of hair.

Meredith Duran

#42. ..you are retained as counsel for unhappy mankind. You have promised to help those in peril by sea, those in captivity, the sick and the needy, and those whose heads are under the poised axe. Whither are you straying? What are you doing?

Seneca.

#43. What is a Lamb of God? People use this phrase.
I don't know.
I watch my sister, fingers straying absently about her mustache,
no help there.

Anne Carson

#44. If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it. Keeping to the main road is easy, But people love to be sidetracked.

Laozi

#45. My thoughts kept straying onto random paths ... hoping to get lost in a thicket.

Barbara Kingsolver

#46. This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets.

William Shakespeare

#47. Some people are destined to dream (some, indeed, are paid rather well to do so); some are born to work, practical and concrete and tireless; and there are others who are like a river, who flow effortlessly down from source to mouth, hardly straying from its bed.

Jose Eduardo Agualusa

#48. Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

Jeane Kirkpatrick