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.
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.
Sometimes when we’re focused on quickly getting to our destination, we’ll encounter unexpected roadblocks and detours. Always remember that there’s more than one path that will lead you to where you’re going. Who knows? You might just enjoy that new, more scenic route!
Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.
You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction.
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.
There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion that's invested into the song come through in the recording.
We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination
I tell you all this because it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few.
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.
The plan was that I was going to do comics, and then the music just cam up in my life and was a detour.
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 along.
When your life begins to harm you, know that you have taken a detour from your true path.
The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.
An unanticipated destination, perhaps, but you must admit,all the best journeys take unexpected detours.
There are no dead ends, just detours.
The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.
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.
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 good detour.
