Unexpected Paths Quotes

#1. Life is not a straight line. It's a spiderweb that twists and tangles. We crawl along our strands until we touch the people who are meant to be in our lives. The strands can knot, as mine did with Lily's, but they don't break, and the unexpected paths are often the best ones.

Stephanie Knipper

#2. ... there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.

Mark Nepo

#3. The medium of exchange in a gold mine is the pickax.

Terry Pratchett

#4. The collective influence of you and the other leaders will bring the rest along. If this does not happen, divided interest and loyalty will occur within the group.

John C. Maxwell

#5. In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Alexander Hamilton

#6. Sometimes it's like watching a wasp land on a stinging nettle: someone's going to get stung and you don't care.

Terry Pratchett

#7. There are no maps for the unexpected detours and unmarked paths we face in life.

Steve Knox

#8. The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#9. Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.

Samuel Johnson

#10. I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.

Lyman Abbott

#11. All sports for all people.

Pierre De Coubertin

#12. By the time your offspring have reached four and five it is far too late to be looking for schools: demand for private education is so high that children must be put down for admission not at birth but in utero, ideally before their first cells have divided.

Stephen Fry

#13. Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting.

Robert Bunsen

#14. Actions are merely an indicator of a problem contained deeper in the heart and in the beliefs of a person. Individual racism cannot be changed through legislation but through personal transformation.

David Anderson

#15. It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves.

Anna Quindlen

#16. Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity."

Kenny Smith