Routed Quotes

#1. After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: I came, I saw, I conquered.

Plutarch

#2. All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.

Satish Kumar

#3. Chemical cheating will be decisively routed when fans become properly repelled by it. They will recoil in disgust when they understand that athletes who are chemically propelled to victory do not merely overvalue winning, they misunderstand why winning is properly valued.

George F. Will

#4. But nothing could stand before our lads, they routed them from the Meadow, & all afterwards was a mere Chace, so far I saw."1 - James Parker, September 11, 1777

Michael Harris

#5. To love is to tilt with the lightning, two bodies routed by a single honey's sweet.

Pablo Neruda

#6. Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force ... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.

Plutarch

#7. The next time I went anywhere with Mad Rogan, I'd bring one of those bandoliers action stars wore when they routed terrorists from jungles.

Ilona Andrews

#8. When, lithe of limb, she danced the Pyrrhic, loud clapping followed; and the Paphlagonians asked, "If these women fought by their side in battle?" to which they answered, "To be sure, it was the women who routed the great King, and drove him out of camp." So ended the night.

Xenophon

#9. Each hero had a tale, of the old days, and of how he had routed and killed, and set things to right, sometimes to right the right that the hero before him had righted.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#10. When you encounter the unbelievers, blows to necks it shall be until, once you have routed them, you are to tighten their fetters.

Tom Holland

#11. I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify.

Jeff Gannon

#12. Delta Airlines recently proposed giving frequent flyers a controversial perk: the option of paying $5 extra to speak to a customer service agent in the United States, rather than be routed to a call center in India. Public disapproval led Delta to abandon the idea.

Michael J. Sandel

#13. His troops routed the militia and gained possession of the American guns, one of which was a brass howitzer that carried the inscription "taken at the surrender of York town 1781.

Donald R. Hickey

#14. Literature has been our salvation, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

John Cheever

#15. Her rapid footsteps shook her own floors, and she routed lassitude and indifference wherever she came.

Willa Cather

#16. Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#17. None of the proposed inter-city solutions would have offered more frequent or more affordable service than existing options like bussing. Busses can also be easily re-routed around gas leaks, car accidents, or traffic congestion.

Mark Noble

#18. Sometimes you have to let things go. Sometimes you have to stop caring for a minute.

Trina Etmanskie

#19. I want to tell the world of cycling to please join me in telling Pat McQuaid to resign. I have never seen such an abuse of power in cycling's history - resign, Pat, if you love cycling. Resign even if you hate the sport.

Greg LeMond

#20. You can take care of everything except chance. Chance can kill you.

Charles Williams

#21. Isn't it true that when some couple celebrates their tenth or fifteenth anniversary they seem far from triumphant? In fact they seem duped while dirty Uncle Harry, the rake, seems to wear the laurels.

John Cheever

#22. Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

Adam Smith

#23. The change, I think, that conversion gradually effects on your heart is this: you come, over some stretched-out time, to want to do the things that God wants you to do, because you want to be close to Him.

Lauren F. Winner

#24. Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

Dag Hammarskjold

#25. We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#26. Keep your dreams more exciting than your memories. When your memories are more exciting than your dreams, you've begun to die.

H. Dale Burke