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Quotes About Routes

It was trade routes, not the projection of military power, that emblemized the "Pax Mongolica."[
~ Robert D. Kaplan
Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get him there by different routes.
~ Richard Dawkins
Science fiction writers didn't predict the fade-out of NASA's manned space operations, and they weren't prepared with alternative routes to space when that decline became undeniable.
~ Gregory Benford
Red Ball moved over 400,000 tons in three months, and eventually was supplemented by other routes with names like White Ball, Red Lion, and Green Diamond. But as one major general in Paris lamented, "It was the greatest killer of trucks that I could imagine.
~ Rick Atkinson
This book is about the endless dance between progress and inequality, about how progress creates inequality, and how inequality can sometimes be helpful—showing others the way, or providing incentives for catching up—and sometimes unhelpful—when those who have escaped protect their positions by destroying the escape routes behind them.
~ Angus Deaton
My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.
~ Jack Henry Abbott
I think TE is the most unique and diverse position. It's the most fun position because it's the only one on the field where you get to do everything that a football player does. You run block, you pass pro, you get to run routes and catch the football. We do everything!
~ George Kittle
If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts.
~ Frank Gaffney
But airports lead you way back in history like oases, like the stops on the great trade routes. The sight of air travellers strolling in ones and twos into midnight airports will draw a small crowd any night up to two. The young people look at the planes, the older ones look at the passengers with a watchful incredulity.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
A lot of wide receivers, they always run their routes at 100% speed. As a DB, that allows you to get a feel for how you need to play them.
~ Chris Harris, Jr.
Quinn keyed up a three-dimensional holovid schematic of Vega Station and its neighbors. The jump routes were represented by sparkling jagged lines between hazy spheres of local space systems.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.
~ Jonathan Waterman
A crow can recall every route it has ever taken, and Cadin had been this way before. Crows are messengers, spies, guides, companions, harbingers of luck, deliverers of trinkets and treasures, tireless in all ways, more loyal than any other man or beast.
~ Alice Hoffman
Film crew shooting Supernatural near you tonight, Crashpad texted. Attaching map & bus routes. Take lots of pix.
~ Eden Robinson
I started free-soloing harder and harder routes, kind of proving to myself that I could take control of this, pretty much the biggest fear I had - falling to my death.
~ Dean Potter
It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.
~ Bryan Ferry
I have another kind of sight. I see another kind of terrain: the available paths. The
~ Frank Herbert
Drugs now travel the old fur trade routes, and where once Corwin
~ Louise Erdrich
Sometimes even the shortest distance can be impossible to navigate, whether you went road or shore or some other route.
~ Sarah Dessen
The medieval pilgrimage routes, in which Christians walked from church to church to commune with the innards of saints, are the beginnings of the modern tourism industry.
~ Sarah Vowell
Politics is a political profession; it has various routes to consider a system in society by the majority of idiots or own interest holders.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Shyness blocks and breaks routes toward the fraternizing with others and success of career and life.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
This new global economy, it's all based on the sea routes.
~ Paul Greengrass
And one of the other routes we looked at crosses a wetlands. The bird lovers would be out in force.
~ Margaret Coel