Take A Detour Quotes

#1. Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

Lynne Truss

#2. The road to success can take a detour. I tell people that I don't care if they came from Yale or jail, it's what you do from today that counts.

Andy Albright

#3. The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.[make the best of what is necessary ... if you can't have what you love, love what you have ... as there are lovable or at least positive aspects in everything, because anything could be worse]

James Jeans

#4. Way from Panchavati to Meluha or do we take a detour?' asked Shiva, goading

Amish Tripathi

#5. The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.

Samuel Johnson

#6. For every failure, there's an alternative
course of action. You just have to find it.
When you come to a roadblock,
take a detour.

Mary Kay Ash

#7. The number of people in the world engaged in this search for catastrophic impactors totals one or two dozen. How long into the future are you willing to protect Homo sapiens on Earth? Before you answer that question, take a detour to Arizona's Meteor Crater during your next vacation.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#8. Take a detour.
Discover small towns
and friendly faces
that don't grow along the highway.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#9. Maybe I shouldn't trust him after all, just like he doesn't seem to trust me fully. Shit, is it always so hard to get close to someone?

Stephanie Witter

#10. The truth of the maxim that beauty lies between the extremities of order and complexity.

Alain De Botton

#11. right" way to be Chicana/o also could be a hegemonic discourse and exclusionary of those who do not fit. They recognized the possibility of multiple hegemonic structures and the danger of policing claims to identity.

Dolores Delgado Bernal

#12. The only way to move forward is to be able to trust whomever you're with 100 percent.

Melissa McBride

#13. Everyone knows how to love because we are all born with that gift.

Paulo Coelho

#14. Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.

Angela N. Blount

#15. Who am I?" My first spoken words.
"No one," she said. "Nosoul.

Jodi Meadows

#16. I tell him I take anti-depressants, which leads him on a thirty-minute detour. He tells me sadness is a part of finding out who you are. I tell him getting out of bed is also a part of finding out who you are. We agree to disagree.

Hilary Winston

#17. I know,' I said, thinking about the trip my mother had wanted me to take, and the trip we'd ended up taking, and how much better ours had been.

Morgan Matson

#18. The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.

Cormac McCarthy

#19. Your steps will take you where you want them to take you. There is no such thing as unwanted detour.

Irina Serban

#20. Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.

Lynda Barry

#21. I'm also interested in something that can happen later in life. In midstream, you can suddenly take what looks like a detour; I'm sure I've taken many detours.

Joe Bradley

#22. Dead-end roads don't mean you've come to your end, just means you need to take a different detour.

Anthony Liccione

#23. Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.

Patricia Heaton

#24. Worrying about life's circumstances of those I love, but over which I have no control is a dangerous, never-ending and pointless game to play.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#25. If you think you know it all, you are not listening.

Marsha Johnson Evans

#26. I thought following a straight road would lead me right to my destination. Like the road would just take me there because I was following all the rules. And if the road curved, I couldn't be sure about where I was going. But look where it got me. Maybe it's time for a detour.

Susane Colasanti

#27. Want me to drive?" Wade asks. "I won't take any detours."
I slam on the brakes and come to a dead stop right in the middle of the road. "Sure. Why not? My life is one big fucking detour," I yell. Then I bang my head on the steering wheel and I can't help it. I start to cry.

Carolee Dean

#28. Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

Agnes Repplier

#29. If anything changes, I'll just take it in stride. For now, I can still walk down the street and quite happily not get noticed.

Sam Claflin

#30. Yeah. I do. I think that we have to continue to expand the areas in which we want our kids to be literate. And social media's going to be a part of their lives. And why not? Why not give them a sense of what the rules of the road are?

LeVar Burton

#31. I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day's schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.

Matthew McConaughey

#32. Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

Ad Reinhardt

#33. God never loses any part of our past for his future when we surrender ourselves to him. Every mistake, sin, and detour we take in the journey of life is taken by God and becomes his gift for a future of blessing.

Peter Scazzero

#34. When you come to a detour, take it.

Jack Dancer