Quotes About Detour

I made a point to have 'mini-adventures' on the road. In Tucson, that meant swinging by a massive airplane graveyard. A quick detour through the Grand Tetons was a Wyoming highlight. We stopped for cheese in Wisconsin and barbecue in South Carolina.

By the end of the millennium, despite the continuing excitement of the field, almost thirty years of a detour from chemistry to medical imaging began to pall, and I changed my focus to a field of chemical research, just in time for my past to catch up with me in the form of a Nobel Prize. All detours should be so productive!

the way around the beginning

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.

You have no idea. I had them contained here for a while. Unfortunately, they escaped." – Sin 'That figured, and it was just like he feared. Suck City Limits was looming in the headlights. He should have known better than to take a detour from Normality.' – Sundown

If you know anything about me, you know that my life's taken a few unexpected curves and crashes along the way. But hey, at least I can say I took the scenic route!

In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.

I]t behooves a man who wants to see wonders sometimes to go out of his way.

Sometimes the paths that lead back to places get blocked.

For it seemed certain, and I believe it still today, that we can never wrestle God too much if we do so out of pure concern for the truth. Christ loves that we prefer the truth to him, because before being the Christ, he is the Truth. If someone takes a detour from him to go towards the truth, they will not go a long way without falling into his arms.

Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home.

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.

The British offered Herzl a territory in Uganda, to be under the sovereignty of the British crown, into which a million Jews could immigrate and settle. The territory would be administered by the Jews and have a Jewish governor. When Nordau protested that Uganda was not Palestine, Herzl replied that, like Moses, he was leading the people to their goal via an apparent detour.

We had strict injunctions, however, on no account to pass the falls of Reichenbach, which are about half-way up the hill, without making a small detour to see them.

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.

Instead of letting it generate negative energy, we can use it for a positive purpose. We can use complaints as a 'signal' or 'sign,' letting us know we are on the negative road and then in the next moment we can take a detour to get on the positive road.

I don't want to sound like a whiny little bitch. I can certainly appreciate how amazing all this was. How fortunate we were. It was a trip of a lifetime. But the success felt like a detour, oddly. A fluke. When I first sat down to write this book and reflected on this peak time of Ben Folds Five, it was difficult to identify what lessons, if any, could be gleaned and passed on.

Uzgob: Heh, heh. "Mission akkomplished". A quick detour over Karnage Skwadron's base, an' we 'ead for 'ome. Gimzod: Karnage Skwadron's base, boss? Uzgob: Heh — that's right, Gimzod. We've got a bommer 'ere painted with enemy markings, so who's gonna know it's really us if we bombs the place to zog?!

I recall a story I love about Jung. One of his students came to him and asked: Professor, could you please tell me the shortest distance to my life goal? Without hesitation Jung replied, The detour.

Patience is the discipline to we have that will enable us to reach the goals we aspire to achieve without taking the easy detour which leads to a dead end.

That's what we all do: endlessly take the long way around.

That's what we all do : endlessly take the long way around.

Perfectionism is not the path that leads us to our gifts and to our sense of purpose; it's the hazardous detour.

The human race seems to love nothing more than a long detour.