Dead Ends Quotes - Page 3

A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.

Fareed Zakaria

Lying, Greatness, Empires

Fareed Zakaria (2011). “The Post-American World: Release 2.0 (International Edition)”, p.108, W. W. Norton & Company

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In order to have creativity, you have to allow for dead ends to happen.

Christoph Niemann

Creativity, Order, Happens

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But there is a process that happens when you're making something, be it a musical or a new play. That process takes time, and mistakes will be made along the way, and you will go down and hit dead ends. But it is so public now. Any yahoo with a computer can start a firestorm.

Joe Mantello

Mistake, Play, Musical

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The democratic world has come to a dead end; likewise, the communist world has come to a dead end. But the Unification Church is just beginning!

Sun Myung Moon

Unification Church, World, Communist

"Creation Of The Fatherland". Reverend Sun Myung Moon's remarks at World Mission Center (as translated by Bo Hi Pak), www.tparents.org. January 1, 1984.

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I am disappointed with America. And there can be no great disappointment where there is not great love. I am disappointed with our failure to deal positively and forthrightly with the triple evils of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism. We are presently moving down a dead-end road that can lead to national disaster. America has strayed to the far country of racism and militarism.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Country, Disappointment, Moving

"Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, April 30, 1967.

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My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape Cod, so I turn the trees into firewood for us and a friend of mine sells the rest.

Sebastian Junger

Wife, House, Tree

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You may have seen people praying to an image as if it had special power. Perhaps they're wishing for the well-being of their family, for material prosperity, or to recover from illness. But this way of practicing faith only leads to a dead end. Buddha images should serve as inspirations to cultivate the infinite loving kindness latent in the buddha within us.

Shinjo Ito

Kindness, Inspiration, People

Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.134

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In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the standards of evidence must be if we are really to know something is true, how many false starts and dead ends have plagued human thinking, how our biases can colour our interpretation of evidence, and how often belief systems widely held and supported by the political, religious and academic hierarchies turn out to be not just slightly in error, but grotesquely wrong.

Carl Sagan

Religious, College, Thinking

Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.98, Ballantine Books

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I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.

David Hyde Pierce

School, Focus, Parent

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I'm always asking questions - not to find 'answers,' but to see where the questions lead. Dead ends sometimes? That's fine. New directions? Interesting. Great insights? Over-ambitious. A glimpse here and there? Perfect.

Lesley Hazleton

Asking Questions, Interesting, Perfect

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How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Party, Years, People

Regarding Juan José Ibarretxe's plan to propose a referendum regarding whether to approve his plan to reform the aunomomy of the Basque Country, El Correo, (p. 23), April 9, 2005.

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Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.

Charles Frazier

Real, Writing, Years

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Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

Frank Herbert

Law, Understanding, Over You

Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.166, Penguin

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Love is blind and little did I know, you were just another dead end road. Paved with pretty lies and broken dreams.

Julie Roberts

Love, Dream, Lying

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Zig Ziglar

Failure, Mean, Detours

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If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven't even climbed. This is a lesson that can only be learned by trial and error.

Mary Ruefle

Errors, Ideas, Path

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Love is a pathway of many colors and dead ends. But when the right path is chosen, the sights are amazing.

Tash

Love Is, Sight, Color

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My daughter will say she's hungry, and I'm like, 'Buddy, you're just bored. Do you understand? And you're already starting a pattern of satisfying an internal disconnect with an external stimulation, and that's a dead-end road, sweetie. Courtney Love lives on that road; you don't want to live on that road.

Dana Gould

Daughter, Love Life, Bored

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The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.

Irving Penn

Pages, Printed, Seems

Merry A. Foresta, Irving Penn, William F. Stapp, National Museum of American Art (U.S.), National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) (1990). “Irving Penn master images: the collections of the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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I think a lot of funds get their ideas from Wall Street. I just like to find my own ideas. I read a lot. A lot of news. I just follow my nose. A lot of times it's a dead end, but sometimes there's value there.

Michael Burry

Wall, Thinking, Ideas

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As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead End' had a great story; 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in.

Lin Shaye

Real, Opportunity, Stories

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There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.

Thomas Sowell

Jobs, Philosophy, Creating

Thomas Sowell (2011). “The Thomas Sowell Reader”, p.40, Basic Books

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Harmonizing heart and brain through love is what can establish a complete intelligence, a complete self, where a child can look at life and realize there are no dead ends, there are always possibilities. The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.

Doc Childre

Love, Children, Heart

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When we attempt to find meaning in the pursuit of pleasure, the commitment to a job, or through plumbing intellectual depths, we all eventually find in each of these pursuits a dead end.

Charles R. Swindoll

Jobs, Commitment, Intellectual

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But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.

Mink Stole

Mother, House, Grew Up

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