Quotes with roads

  • Our discussion has shown that while in war many different roads can lead to the goal, to the attainment of the political object, fighting is the only possible means.
  • Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

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  • Jules Renard Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samādhi.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • George Bernard Shaw All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.
    The Adventures Of Black Girl in Her Search for God 8
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bill Lipinski Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.
    Bill Lipinski
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Bobby Scott Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bev Perdue From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America.
    Bev Perdue
    American businesswoman and politician (1947 - )
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  • Barack Obama If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Bodhidharma Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton New roads; new ruts.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Our discussion has shown that while in war many different roads can lead to the goal, to the attainment of the political object, fighting is the only possible means.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Aldo Leopold Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • Bill Bryson Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Gore Vidal Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Bono The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Ernest A. Fitzgerald The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.
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  • Georges Pompidou There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
    Georges Pompidou
    French politician, prime minister and president (1911 - 1974)
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