Highways Quotes - Page 12

• Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens?

  Douglas Coupland

  Eye, Gun, Car

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• I got back in my car, starting the engine, then drove off. It wasn't until I pulled onto the highway that it all really sunk it, how temporary our friendship had been. We'd been on our breaks, after all, but it wasn't our relationships that were on pause: it was us. Now we were both in motion again, moving ahead. So what if there were questions left unanswered. Life went on. We knew that better than anyone.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moving, Car, What If

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.316, Penguin

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• But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fall, Son, Dark

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.656, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Oh, God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"
  Abe said, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"
  God said, "No" Abe say, "What?"
  God say, "You can do what you want, Abe, but
  The next time you see me comin', you better run"
  Well, Abe said, "Where d'you want this killin' done?"
  God said, "Out on Highway 61".

  Bob Dylan

  Running, Son, Men

  "Highway 61 Revisited". Song by Bob Dylan, 1965.

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• The most beautiful highway in the world

  Dave Pelzer

  Beautiful, World

  Dave Pelzer (1993). “A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive”, p.14, Health Communications, Inc.

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• How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Opportunity, Water, Personality

  Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.123, Vintage

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• Conner Lassiter. Scheduled to be unwound the 21st of November-until you went AWOL. You caused an accident that killed a bus driver, left dozens of others injured, and shut down an interstate highway for hours. Then, on top of it, you took a hostage AND shot a Juvey-cop with his own tranq gun." ..."He's the Akron AWOL?!

  Neal Shusterman

  Gun, Dozen, November

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.385, Simon and Schuster

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• TRIAD: Three separate highways intersect at a place no reasonable person would ever want to go. Three lives that would have been cut short, if not for hasty interventions by loved ones. Or Fate. Three people, with nothing at all in common except age, proximity, and a wish to die. Three tapestries, tattered at the edges and come unwoven to reveal a single mutual thread.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Fate, Cutting, Wish To Die

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• As he fell toward the highway, a horrible scenario flashed through his mind: his body smashing against an SUV's windshield, some annoyed commuter trying to push him off with the wipers. "Stupid 16-year-old kid falling from the sky! I'm late!

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Fall, Kids

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• Our life is an endless journey; it is like a broad highway that extends infinitely into the distance. The practice of meditation provides a vehicle to travel on that road. Our journey consists of constant ups and downs.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Distance, Journey, Practice

  Chogyam Trungpa (2009). “Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm not a Gingrich fan. He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or the highway.

  Bob Dole

  Fans, Way, Newts

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• I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.

  Steve Earle

  Tired, Eight, Views

  "Steve Earle, Our Woody Guthrie, Takes Our Pulse On Low Highway" by Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 16, 2013.

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• Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

  Pope Francis

  Idols, Lord, Stripping

  Pope Francis (2017). “Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith”, p.35, Loyola Press

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• Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.

  Thomas Frank

  Airports, Ideas, World

  "Toll Roads Are Paved With Bad Intentions" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2009.

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• You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Flower, Gay, Lgbt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.

  Nicki Minaj

  Black And White, People, Sound

  "V Exclusive! Nicki Minaj Talks What ‘Pink Friday’ Proved, Being a Woman in Hip-Hop, Fashion". Interview With Mikey Fresh, www.vibe.com. February 16, 2012.

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• AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' is the greatest meshing of vocal, guitar, and content I've ever heard. That's what I aspire to.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Guitar, Hell, Heard

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways so people can go to multiple places and invent ways of doing things not thought of by the persons building the roads.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  New York, People, Priorities

  Interview with Jim Clash, uk.askmen.com.

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• As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.

  Gabrielle Union

  Husband, Philosophy, Way

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• One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world. They have cost stock traders, in the aggregate, enough millions of dollars to build a concrete highway across the continent.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Giving Up, Two, Trying

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• The gross national product includes air pollution and advertising for cigarettes, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors, and jails for the people who break them ... It does not allow for the health of our families, the quality of thier education, or the joy of their play.

  Robert Kennedy

  Air, Doors, Play

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• I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.

  Eddie Vedder

  Eye, Gas Stations, Sandwiches

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• If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car. And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.

  Jim Steinman

  Funny Life, Mirrors, Views

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• I think the Internet is absolutely extraordinary. It's very, very useful and I think one of the things we've got to do is make sure that the African continent gets on to that information super highway.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Thinking, Information, Internet

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• Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged and cold, vainly seeking in this land of plenty, where physical want should be unknown.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Country, Children, Men

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