Quotes About Path

Collot is back from Lyon, did you know? He had finished his work, as he describes it. His path of righteousness is very clear and straight and broad. It's so easy to be a good Jacobin. Collot hasn't a doubt or scruple in his head— indeed, I doubt if he has much in it at all. Stop the Terror? He thinks we haven't even begun.

Were you ever at the cathedral in Chartres? You walk the labyrinth," he says, "set into the pavement, and it seems there is no sense in it. But if you follow it faithfully it leads you straight to the center. Straight to where you should be.

But no one chooses a future. You choose a path without being certain where it leads.

Fairy tales have a moral: Stay on the path. Don't trust wolves. Don't steal things, not even things you think no normal person would care about. Share your food but don't trust people who want to share their food with you; don't eat their shiny red apples, not their candy houses, nor any of it. Be nice, always nice, and polite to everyone: kings and beggars, witches and wounded bears. Don't break a promise.

Choose a future, Balekin had commanded him when he'd first brought Cardan to Hollow Hall. But no one chooses a future. You choose a path without being certain where it leads. Choose one way and a monster rends your flesh. Choose another and your heart turns to stone, or fire, or glass.

She didn't want to explain the recklessness, the pleasure of making the bad choice, the glory of at least this once, picking her own path to damnation.

no one chooses a future. You choose a path without being certain where it leads.

They are two people who ought to have, by all rights, remained enemies forever. He can't believe his good fortune, can't trace the path that got him here.

It is not long before we come to the royal rose garden. The guards stop at the gate, letting us go on alone. As we make our way down a path of shimmering quartz steps, everything is hushed. The wind carries floral scents through the air, a wild perfume that doesn't exist outside of Faerie and reminds me all at once of home and menace.

no one chooses a future. You choose a path without being certain where it leads. Choose one way and a monster rends your flesh. Choose another and your heart turns to stone, or fire, or glass.

Two paths are before me, but only one leads to victory.

When the king returns, rose petals will scatter across his path, and his footfalls will bring an end to wrath.

Which would be at about shoulder height. Apparently, in Pada's search for her path, the Saints needed to be sure that they had nothing important to say that lay toward either the ceiling or the floor, or she would render them mute.

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

The soul is the mystic lover. The soul is the mystic path. The soul is our guide. The soul is our life. We are the single soul without limits. - Shaykh Nur al-Jerrahi

And now from yonder hill the sun's bright beams Shine through the mist, and flood the world with light; The path winds on, leaving our broken dreams Of tangled briar and brake far out of sight. The dawn of hope has come our heart to cheer; The path before us shines in the sun's ray. We follow on, into the coming year, And in hope's sunshine greet each op'ning day.

T)he path to wisdom lies not in certainty, but in trying to understand.

Sometimes we can change the direction of our lives, but sometimes we're destined to follow the path we were given.

Decades spent in contact with science and its vehicles have directed my mind and senses to areas beyond their reach. I now see scientific accomplishments as a path, not an end; a path leading to and disappearing in mystery.

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

God's Word had the power to light our way and to clear the debris that had covered the path so we can walk in it.

God's Word has the power to light our way and to clear the debris that has covered the path so we can walk in it.

Stars to light our way.