Dead Ends Quotes

101 quotes by 96 authors

A dead end street is a good place to turn around. — Naomi Judd
People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of… — Dean Kamen
It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. — Greil Marcus
Life is a dead-end street. — H. L. Mencken
For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do… — J. Michael Straczynski
I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there. — Steven Wright
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. — Zig Ziglar
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the… — Helen Fisher
After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of… — Christopher Paolini
To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. — Jane Jacobs
I said it before and Iâ€™ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: thereâ€™s only movies. Music is still okay,… — Stephen Fry
They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead… — Angela Carter
There are no dead ends, just detours. — Nora Roberts
I bought a house on a one-way dead-end road. I donâ€™t know how I got there. — Steven Wright
So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it… — Robert Fulghum
Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had.… — Haruki Murakami
Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness? — Ellen Hopkins
i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk… — Saul Williams
As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light where… — Cecelia Ahern
I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of… — Jodi Picoult

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