Detour Quotes

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. (Hubert Humphrey)
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. View quote
Mary Kay Ash
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 himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
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. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. View quote
Denis Waitley
On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. View quote
Zig Ziglar
If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you. View quote
Allison DuBois
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 had a good long siesta every day during the Second World War, and he said it was the thing that enabled him to cope with the pressure. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it. View quote
Hans Urs von Balthasar
2) "the a of différance also recalls that spacing is temporization, the detour and postponement by means of which intuition, perception, consummation - in a word, the relationship to the present, the reference to a present reality, to a being - are always deferred. Deferred by virtue of the very principle of difference which holds that an element functions and signifies, takes on or conveys meaning, only by referring to another past or future element in an economy of traces. This economic aspect of différance, which brings into play a certain not conscious calculation in a field of forces, is inseparable from the more narrowly semiotic aspect of différance. (Jacques Derrida)
The detour to ideality leads to coinciding with oneself, that is, to certainty, which remains the guide and guarantee of the whole spiritual adventure of being. View quote
Emmanuel Levinas
If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others. View quote
Clay Aiken
On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family. View quote
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make. View quote
Gabrielle Bernstein
Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination. View quote
James Arthur Ray
Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine! View quote
Jon Gordon
Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction. View quote
Jason Schwartzman
In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies. View quote
Shawn Amos
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 to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day's schedule and be ready for any off-road detour. View quote
Matthew McConaughey
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. (Barbara Bush)
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error. View quote
Hermann Hesse
Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes. View quote
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
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 asking for your vote. View quote
Mitt Romney
When your life begins to harm you, know that you have taken a detour from your true path. View quote
Caroline Myss