Detour Quotes

51 Detour quotes by 49 unique authors

Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. — Zig Ziglar
The detour is always rougher than the main road — Vance Havner
The most interesting people I know drink in life and savor every drop-the sweet and the sour. The good and the bad. The planned and… — Luci Swindoll
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… — Joe Bradley
The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill… — Tom Hodgkinson
The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty… — Hubert H. Humphrey
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… — Matthew McConaughey
You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict… — Benjamin Netanyahu
If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm… — Mitt Romney
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. — Zig Ziglar
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error. — Hermann Hesse
Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour. — Augusten Burroughs
On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers. — Nicholas Sparks
It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take… — Lauren Oliver
It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came… — Darren Shan
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. — Mary Kay Ash
None of us wants to admit that we hate someone... When we deny our hate we detour around the crisis of forgiveness. We suppress our… — Lewis B. Smedes

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