Destination Quotes - Page 8

• Plato and his objectivistic successors ... preserved the awareness of differences that pragmatism has been invented to deny the difference between thinking in the laboratory and in philosophy, and consequently the difference between the destination of mankind and its present course.

  Max Horkheimer

  Plato, Philosophy, Thinking

  Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.36, A&C Black

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• He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme. Around the world in eighty days

  Jules Verne

  World, Moments, Typhoons

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• A new study has found that watching Fox News can make you more conservative and watching MSNBC can make you more liberal. And watching CNN can make you think that no plane has ever safely reached its destination.

  Conan O'Brien

  Thinking, Cnn, Make You Think

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• Unfortunately, half the boats were lost in a great storm at sea, and many members of the six boats that did make it to their destinations safely, were later killed by the very native people to whom they sought to transmit their knowledge of the Atlantean sciences, arts and metaphysics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Sea, People

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.  Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it than a picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.  You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.

  Guy Finley

  Moving, Past, Reality

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• Time remorselessly rambles down the corridors and streets of our lives. but it is not until autumn that most of us become aware that our tickets are stamped with a terminal destination.

  Joe L. Wheeler

  Autumn, Tickets, Streets

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• Becoming mature Christians will require the sovereign work of God. Only God can save and sanctify. Still, God uses men and means. Certainly we as parents must seek to bring our children to Jesus Christ for salvation. But salvation is not the end of the journey. It is only the beginning. The destination toward which we are headed with our children is nothing less than maturity in Christ.

  Wayne Mack

  Christian, Jesus, Children

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• Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.

  Alan Kay

  Journey, Civilization, Understanding

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• Plot is the knowing of destination.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Knowing, Plot

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• The paradox: there can be no pilgrimage without a destination, but the destination is also not the real point of the endeavor. Not the destination, but the willingness to wander in pursuit characterizes pilgrimage. Willingness: to hear the tales along the way, to make the casual choices of travel, to acquiesce even to boredom. That's pilgrimage -- a mind full of journey.

  Patricia Hampl

  Real, Journey, Boredom

  Patricia Hampl (1993). “Spillville: A Collaboration”, Milkweed Editions

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• Life is like the rungs on a ladder. The reason they are placed so close together is that we can learn to take baby steps and reach our destinations safely.

  Tom Baker

  Baby, Together, Life Is Like

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• At the heart of Christian ethic is humility; at the heart of its parodies, pride. Different roads with different destinations, and the destinations color the character of those who travel by them.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Character, Humility

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• Women inspire me. Women in the airports, around the country in different cities, destinations around the world, inspire me with the way they express their individuality. I love watching women and discovering all the ways each person uses a color, pattern, a style, even a lipstick color. Im a people watcher.

  Camila Alves

  Country, Airports, Color

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am very lucky to have the opportunity to travel to so many amazing destinations for work!

  Brad Goreski

  Opportunity, Lucky

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• Theres a difference between, as I always say, the destination, the end point, and the journey. The journey has a lot of twists and turns. It isnt always pretty.

  Bob Menendez

  Journey, Differences, Twists

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• Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

  Mike Quigley

  Two, Information, Needs

  "Reinventing the Federal Budget" by Mike Quigley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2010.

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• It's not the destination, It's the glory of the ride.

  Giles Andreae

  Travel, Glory

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• I'm somebody who considers happiness a journey, not a destination.

  Neil Gaiman

  Journey

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2005.

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• The Russian Dept of Tourism has declared Ukraine its most dangerous destination. Many Russian tourists have disappeared there.

  Garry Kasparov

  Ukraine, Tourism, Tourists

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• YouTube is becoming much more than an entertainment destination.

  Chad Hurley

  Entertainment, Becoming, Youtube

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• Many of us have road maps we envision for the course we think our lives should take. It's important to get headed in the right direction, but don't get so caught up in the concerns over your destination that you forget to delight in the scenery of each new day. Remember that some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.

  Douglas Pagels

  Thinking, Rushing, New Day

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• Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Lakes, People, Promise

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• By choosing our path, we choose our destination.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Path

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• Our first responsibility as a leader is to create an attractive dream, to proclaim a destination, communicating it in detail to others who might be interested in joining our expedition.

  Susan Collins

  Leadership, Dream, Responsibility

  Susan Collins (1996). “Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

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