Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: road :: path

Quoted In The Grove:
It is only the long and patient road that leads to anywhere.
~Muriel Strode

There is no royal road; you’ve got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.
~Charles E Wilson

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

EndQuote:
Adventure stands at every cross-road and only the dun-grey kind with the one-way mind ignore him. But the variety-artist knows what his nose knows and goes where his nose goes, for it’s hinged, although apparently unhinged, and if it leads him into trouble it also teaches him the scent of it.
~Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander

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Next Exercise: poison

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Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries‒ stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water…
~Herman Melville

Very often you’d meet the carriage first, filled with halt, maimed, and blind, who had crowded him out: and the old man following on foot, zig-zagging along the road, with his nose in a book; a very sweet-natured man, with a fine ear for English.
~Arthur T Quiller Couch

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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one’s nose, taking shortcuts.
~Italo Calvino

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
~Anthony Trollope

The road reaches every place, the short cut only one.
~James Richardson

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
~Andre Gide

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Good company upon the road is the shortest cut.
~Proverb

No road is long with good company.
~Turkish proverb

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The level path is easy, but it will not bring you to the mountaintop.
~Dr Idel Dreimer

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our way is not soft grass, it’s a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.
~Ruth Westheimer

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.
~Anya Seton

If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.
~Loretta Young

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Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways,
And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low,
I’m at home and at ease on a track that I know not,
And restless and lost on a road that I know.
~Henry Lawson

There’s never a pleasant, sunlit road
In all the ways we roam
Like the little, narrow, familiar street
That runs by the door of home.
~Esther M Clark Hill

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.
~Sarah Orne Jewett

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Posted From The Grove

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
~Dwight D Eisenhower

I’d rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.
~Kevyn Aucoin

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
~Carl Lewis

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The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.
~Scott Hamilton

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
~Angela Davis

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
~Maya Angelou

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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
~Winston Churchill

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson

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We have mountain of debt that isn’t going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.
~Rick Santelli

No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.
~Glenn Beck

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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.
~Barack Obama

You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.
~Elizabeth Warren

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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
~Brendan Behan

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos‒especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
~Jim Morrison

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
~Ernest Holmes

The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.
~Hubert H Humphrey

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.
~John F Kennedy

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I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
~Benjamin F Wade

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
~King Abdullah II

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.
~Moshe Dayan

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.
~Ron Wyden

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
~Marion Zimmer Bradley

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Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
~Benazir Bhutto

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation’s economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.
~King Hussein I

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One of the things the government can’t do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.
~Lee Iacocca

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
~Thomas Jefferson

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All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
~John T Flynn

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
~Thomas Sowell

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If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
~Nelson Mandela

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
~Khalil Gibran

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.
~Rumi

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.
~Sextus Propertius

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You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
~Margaret Thatcher

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~Alexa Lim Haas: Glove (5:30) from here to eternity

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~Great Big Story: A Travel Writer Shares His Best Tips (2:22) a Pico Iyer reveal

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~Tiger Miguel Mercer: Tuck & Art Go Uptown (5:13) the messy road to writing a song

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The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.
~Author unknown

The road to success is not a path you find but a trail you blaze.
~Robert Brault

The road to success is always under construction.
~Lily Tomlin

Roads are essential to any type of agricultural development.
~Norman Borlaug

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.
~Navjot Singh Sidhu

The road to success just might be your driveway.
~Joey Reiman

If you don’t like the road you’re walking on start paving another.
~Dolly Parton

The road to success is wherever people need another road.
~Robert Brault

Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.
~Seth Godin

Pave your own path and be fearless.
~Adam Draper

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
~Robert Frost

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The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.
~Mia Love

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
~John D Rockefeller

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.
~Jerry Seinfeld

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
~Oprah Winfrey

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§ VIDEO:

In all human lives, when the spring arrives, there riseth the wanderlust; and a fellow’s dreams are of woods and streams, and the long road white with dust.
~Walt Mason

Road Runner, I am curious,
You’ve got me wondering why
You’re always in a foot race,
I’ve never seen you fly
~Harry Golden

Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the road is beautiful, walk the road slowly; be a turtle, be a snail and even better than this: Stop walking; live the road fully!
~Mehmet Murat ildan

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me – and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.
~Blake Shelton

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.
~Paulo Coelho

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Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I’ve done that since the beginning. So that’s not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet.
~David Cronenberg

If I were beginning my career today, I don’t think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I’d be there.
~David Attenborough

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era – it’s a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.
~Clement Mok

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Young people don’t want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I’m just beginning, never ending.
~Compay Segundo

There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I’m sitting here and doing great.
~Matthew Perry

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As a real person, he wouldn’t last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we’ve moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House’s friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don’t always like morally good people, do we?
~Hugh Laurie

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off yshour imagination and broaden the character, I think.
~Miranda Otto

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~Funniest Clinic Duties: House M.D. • Heartburn (8:14) short clips medical humor

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~NITVShorts: A Glimpse (10:04) love full circle in the fleeting meeting of a moment

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~NITVShorts: Coffee To Go (13:06) letting go

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~Robert Odegnal: The Developer (17:08) Russian sci-fi

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
~William Hazlitt

Travelling the road will tell you more about the road than the google will tell you about the road.
~Amit Kalantri

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask – when will we get a road to our village.
~Thabo Mbeki

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That’s the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it’s time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.
~Jello Biafra

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
~Stephen King

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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
~Ayn Rand

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.
~Orison Swett Marden

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
~Jim Rohn

I don’t always know where this life is going. I can’t see the end of the road, but here is the great part: courage is not about knowing the path. It is about taking the first step.
~Katie Davis

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
~Jean de la Bruyere

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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
~Jean de la Fontaine

The light goes out on purpose sometimes so we can get lost and then realize we weren’t even on the right path to begin with.
~Michelle Christine

Your path is illuminated by the light
Yet darkness lets the stars shine bright.
~JLW Brooks

Follow your own path, no matter what people say.
~Karl Marx

I will pick a stony path
One that’s hard to travel,
I will choose a bitter road
One that’s sharp with gravel.
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I will find my spirit out—
Pin it to a pole:
If I do no other thing—
I will know my soul.
~George Elliston

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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
~Sam Walter Foss

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Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
~Lin Yutang

Don’t think you’re on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path.
~author unknown

There are no wrong roads to anywhere.
~Norton Juster

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.
~Guy Gavriel Kay

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
~John Burroughs

At the end of every road you meet yourself.
~S N Behrman

Before we go down that road again I thought I’d check and see what else was out there.
~Taylor Hackford

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§ MUSIC:

When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.
~Jonathan Davis

My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don’t need the money, but there’s an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There’s a love there; we’re a band of brothers.
~Stevie Nicks

It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It’s who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.
~Brand Paisley

You can’t give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside – so be it. But at least you know you’ve tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.
~Robert Plant

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The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn’t cross the road to see them. It’s people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.
~Nick Lowe

I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.
~Jan Hammer

Just going on the road and entertaining the fans, that’s amazing.
~Jordan Knight

I love the fact we’re still on the road. I was born to be a factory worker really, so for me the chance to get on stage at Wembley 30 years after we started is amazing.
~Joe Elliott

Johnny Guitar… just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the ’50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.
~Etta James

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The road is a lot of work.
~Christina Aguilera

We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.
~Michael Stipe

Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we’re in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.
~Loretta Lynn

The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.
~Miranda Lambert

The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime.
~Lana Del Rey

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I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.
~Ville Valo

I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I’ve had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.
~Sarah McLachlan

When I’m off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It’s a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything – going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.
~Alanis Morissette

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In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there’s nowhere to put my drink, no cup holder. And I’m not going to lie, it looks pretentious. I used to think it was cool to, like, drive it to dinner. Now? Like I really need to be looked at any more.
~Danica Patrick

As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is… I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I’m out there, I’m getting the nice hotel suite, I’m getting the luxury car, I’m eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road.
~Trish Stratus

At home in Paris I take a milk bath two times a week, but here on the road it is more difficult. I miss them.
~Anna Held

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.
~Eleanor Robson Belmont

There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.
~Maria Sharapova

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What I’ve learned in my life, it’s a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I’m home, my character really changes quite a bit.
~John Mayer

I’m very unstable; there’s no stability in a musician’s life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don’t know where your money’s coming from.
~James Taylor

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~Paul McCartney plays/composes: The Long And Winding Road (4:00) a first time performance

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~Niia: Road, road, road to Dakhla (1:37) when musicians road trip, make a short video

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~Paul Cass: Country Road (4:03) country stars merge, meld country classics

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~Eric: Road Trip (3:10) happy faces, cute song

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~Red Hot Chili Peppers: Road Trippin’ (3:23) private concert, oceanside

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~nameless emoji: Road & Wild (2:16) ambiguous friendship celebrated

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~Steve Young: Foxes and Fossils Seven Bridges Road (2:57) clipped phrasing effective

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~Guy Chambers: The Road to Mandalay (3:34) piano solo, a meditation

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~Robbie Williams: Road to Mandalay (4:06) w/ lyrics and story line

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~Van Morrison: Bright Side Of The Road, w/ Wanted (3:30) homemade tasty

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~Talking Heads: Road to Nowhere (3:42) existential destinations

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~Ray Charles: the heymacs: Hit The Road, Jack (3:19) taken as a personal injunction

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I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn’t. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people’s needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
~Dee Dee Myers

My mom was a ’70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked.
~Melissa Leo

And mothers are their daughters’ role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.
~Victoria Secunda

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My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there’s a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.
~Eric Stonestreet

My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.
~Richard Russo

I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren’t. I’ve opted for the road of happiness and long life.
~Ethan Suplee

My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.
~Wayne Wonder

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A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it’s cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I’d feel honored.
~Kesha

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
~Jim Rohn

I I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.
~Muriel Strode

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I’m more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.
~Neil LaBute

The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
~Ralph W Sockman

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I’ve got a stag weekend coming up and I’ve said I’m not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won’t have it. I’ll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.
~Martin Freeman

Your heart knows which path leads to joy and your mind keeps you on the right track.
~J Beard

My heart chose my path, it’s up to my mind to follow it.
~Niki Rokicki

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The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure to be experienced by the sensitive lover.
~Andre Maurois

When I’m in a relationship, that girl gets showered with letters from the road. I pour my heart into it.
~Jason Mraz

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
~Marya Mannes

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We who are less logical talk as if the future were something that lay stretched before us like a landscape ‒ something into which we are marching with keen and comprehending eyes. Alas, we can march into it only backwards, and all that confronts our eyes is the long winding road of the past.
~Robert Lynd

The road recedes as the traveler advances, leaving a continuous present.
~Richard Le Gallienne

The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
~Lucy Stone

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.
~Anthony Hopkins

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There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
~Georges Pompidou

This is not a road. A road has asphalt and two lanes, this is dirt on a cliff!
~Roberto Orci

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I’m all about sharing the road with other drivers — as long as they use the part that’s behind me.
~author unknown

I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took.
~Robert Brault

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The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn and each stationary.
~Philip Guedall

And I, I took the road less traveled by. I was using a GPS system.
~Robert Brault

For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life’s list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.
~Jeff Foxworthy

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.
~Robert Brault

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three lefts do.
~Jason Love

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Thirty days Hath September
April June and the Speed offender
~Burma-Shave road sign

Beneath this slab
John Brown is stowed.
He watched the ads,
And not the road.
~Ogden Nash

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A bend in the road is not the end of the road — unless you fail to make the turn.
~author unknown

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and-nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stocks snuggles into your heart in the same way.
~Mark Twain

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
~Anne Lamott

I only like rocky road when it’s ice cream.
~Ken Koonce

A man toiled on a burning road,
Never resting.
Once he saw a fat, stupid ass
Grinning at him from a green place.
~Stephen Crane

A man with mirth is like a chariot with springs, in which one can ride over the roughest road, and scarcely feel anything but a pleasant rocking motion.
~Henry Ward Beecher

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Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade… Thirty — the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
~F Scott Fitzgerald

I believe that all roads lead to the same place ‒ and that is wherever all roads lead to.
~Willie Nelson

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It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile and one nut to scatter it all over the road.
~author unknown

The driver is safer when the roads are dry; the roads are safer when the driver is dry.
~author unknown

Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.
~Robert Brault

The best advice is to take it easy, respect speed limits and do not try to make up time lost in the tailbacks on the open road.
~Emma Caulfield

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You always think that 70 is the end of the road: ‘Somebody died when they were 73; good life’. You’re closer to death, and you better make sure you don’t waste too much of your time doing things you don’t want to do. No point in saying things you don’t believe in.
~Ian Mckellen

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

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As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new –
and near the end.
The milestones into headstones change,
Neath every one a friend.
~James Russell Lowell

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
~Aristophanes

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.
~Bruce Catton

I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I’m the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I’m not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I’m just relaxing and enjoying it.
~Betty White

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
~Samuel Butler

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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
~William Blake

It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
~George Santayana

The road to wisdom?—Well, it’s plain and simple to express:
Err and err and err again but less and less and less.
~Piet Hein

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When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that’s kind of a dead-end road. So I think it’s a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.
~K D Lang

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.
~Gilbert Murray

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
~Hannah Arendt

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You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear – things like hamburgers and hot dogs – were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.
~Alton Brown

My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I’ve ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he’s making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I’m not a better cook than my own husband!
~Rachael Ray

Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I’ll show you one who eats.
~Bruce Froemming

I’ve talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don’t have to live on fast food every night.
~Matt Cameron

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
~Ernest Hemingway

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One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.
~William Irwin Thompson

Everybody comes in the way of life, not once, but five thousand times, to a point where the roads fork. One road is that of excuse, and the other that of heroism. Ninety-nine men in a hundred take the road of excuse…
~Henry Ward Beecher

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The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, ‘What are you talking about?’ Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it’s not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.
~Joan Jett

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it.
~Oprah Winfrey

It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
~Zachary Quinto

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
~Earl Nightingale

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I am coming the upward route, the hill road. I am leaning hard on my staff, my mountain boots are torn — but I am coming, I am on the far, high ledge. I am coming with a spray of kinnikinnic in my mountain coat, and the autumn colors in my mountain soul.
~Muriel Strode

He had come to love rolling for its own sake. The thought of being chained to a desk — of being chained even to a house — revolted him. He wanted always to be able to throw his things into a bag and take the road at a moment’s notice.
~Burton E Stevenson

The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by.
~Robert Brault

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@Writers Platform

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
~Charles Baudelaire

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.
~Gerard Manley Hopkins

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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.
~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The road from ‘here’ to ‘there’ is a map yet to be written with the pen I hold in my hand.
~Craig D Lounsbrough

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Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turn’d round walks on,
And turns no more his head
~Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner

I didn’t go to the worlds of story to be reminded that on a dark road your anger and your cruelty pace just behind you, daring you to turn your head, unless you let them travel safely within you.
~Francis Spufford

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop – is to pause – and when the caravan goes away, that’s when this stuff comes.
~David Remnick

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Nose in a book, feet off the path, head in the clouds, and heart on my sleeve.
~Del

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Prewritten Prompt: road :: path

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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
~Charles Caleb Colton

If God sends us on stony paths, he will provide us with strong shoes.
~Alexander Maclaren

God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut.
~Alexander Graham Bell

If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.
~Wayne Dyer

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People come into your life and people leave it… you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
~Orlando Bloom

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
~Stephen Hawking

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
~Aldous Huxley

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
~George Jean Nathan

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens…
~J R R Tolkien

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When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.
~Andrew Shue

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
~George Lucas

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.
~John White Geary

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
~Terry Brooks

Give every fellow you meet the time of day and half the road. If two or three doses of that kind of medicine fails to make him civil and kind, don’t waste any more ammunition trying to pump politeness into a fool.
~Josh Billings

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An old road always looks richer and more beautiful than a new road because old roads have memories!
~Mehmet Murat ildan

The road may be beautiful or ugly; it may be easy or hard, smooth or rough, it doesn’t matter; what matters most is where the road will take you!
~Mehmet Murat ildan

I’d rather drive the yellow brick road, you wouldn’t happen to know of a rental car place around.
~Ryan Stiles

Whatever road you’ve been given, enjoy that road.
~Wayne Knight

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§ The Exercise:

sideroads

some of the short are too short
some of the long are…
well, too long, so ‒
so long
it’s been swell

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merrily

the road to ruin
r u in?
on the gallop?
just on the way?

on the path to pleasure’s pastures
past your fence-lined measured sins
meadow muffin mea culpas
posted rules won’t let me in

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cartography

florid exaggerations
vie with understatement
journey’s glorified con
mislabeled Adventure
heart’s failed resolve
escaping to back roads
abandon the future
erasing the past
until only now is left
the remains of today

local landmarks
unpronounceable names
anonymous lanes meet
at the corner of Main
regional remedies
faith in their claims
simplicity of letting be
a new kind of sane

forbidding legends
forbidden customs
new sayings
foreign scribblings
creeping cancer of maps
with spidery veins
transform mystifyingly
into return routes
back roads becoming
the road back to you

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destination

country roads / city streets
same more than opposite
being just-as-they-sound beings
say: city streets ‒ short stops, and go
saying dusty road takes it easy and slow
pulse driving to radio news
or cowboy music ‘n roam with a view
long returns from short departures
both and neither stand alone
street ‘n road without their strictures
like the song says, take you home

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inheritance

of architecture and literature
centuries of winter and struggle
captured and mastered by culture

of dance and music
none more powerful or delicate
essence of a people concentrated in art

he’s haunted they say
memories turned dreams of empire
blind to birthright and his heritage for estate

sons alike on the road to survival
creators and destroyers, making and breaking
and history remembers with its favorites and failures

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5s ‘n 7s

ochre brick walkway
green moss, lichen infested
with life invested
grows long to become a road
paved smooth for posterity

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hail maiden, well met
trenchant love lacking romance
tame road to friendship
lame emotions lacking fire
hobbled feelings, half a life

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soft mud for a base
reflected sky for a face
puddle by the road
puddle in the path from rain
scenic settings, one wet pain

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insurmountable
loose rocks, cliffside edge threatens
mountain roads don’t care

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.
~Stewart Brand

The road… takes us to the rest of the universe, then it leads back here. An endless circle.
~Gene Roddenberry

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If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
~David Livingstone

Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.
~Paulo Coelho

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Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.
~Tom Wilson

The road to self-belief is potholed.
~Nyasha Madavo

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If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.
~Lewis Carroll

Truth is one, paths are many.
~Mahatma Gandhi

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A dog has four legs but can’t run on four paths at the same time. ~Haitian proverb

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
~Xun Zi

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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
~Carl Sagan

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era – it’s a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.
~Clement Mok

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The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.
~Roman Saying (trans. Charles de Lint)

There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.
~Henry David Thoreau

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It’s easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they’re all at home. In basketball, they’re on the road all the time.
~Khloe Kardashian

People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That’s how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.
~Terry Bradshaw

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Your grief path is yours alone, and no one else can walk it, and no one else can understand it.
~Terri Irwin

All the roads converge just east of this gap, and this junction will be very necessary.
~Michael Shaara

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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
~Ambrose Bierce

I walked barefoot ‒ the only way to walk on a muddy road.
~Laurie Gough

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The Olio
Quotes harvested from: https://bqotd.com, https://quotegarden.com, https://wisesayings.com

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The Salmagundi
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