Two Roads Quotes - Page 2

• Each civilization may choose one of two roads to travel, that is, either fret itself to death, or pet itself to death. And in the course of doing one or the other, it eats its way into the Universe, turning cinders and flinders of stars into toilet seats, pegs, gears, cigarette holders and pillowcases, and it does this because, unable to fathom the Universe, it seeks to change that Fathomlessness into Something Fathomable.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Stars, Two, Civilization

  "The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel. "Tale of the Three Storytelling Machines of King Genius", §10, 1974.

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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

  Beautiful, Forgiveness, Dream

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

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• The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).

  Napoleon Hill

  Spiritual, Opposites, Two

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.164, Penguin

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• Two roads diverged in a wood, I took the one less travelled I'm patient so that's one less hassle If I dream it, I can live it I've seen the light with vivid imagery I need to write with fits of energy But it's hard tryin' to get where I'm goin' Without a hint or an omen It's too late to turn around Perseverance, gotta learn it now But I'm stubborn how Am I supposed to survive this rollercoaster hurtlin' to the ground?

  Danny Denzongpa

  Dream, Perseverance, Writing

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• There are two roadblocks in the way of transforming India into an economic giant and one of them was education. I believe that if education is privatised at primary and secondary level, lot of our problems will be answered to

  Kumar Mangalam Birla

  Education, Believe, Two

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.

  Rachel Carson

  Lying, Long, Progress

  "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson, (p. 277), 1962.

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• I can't understand how people can settle for having just one life. I remember we were in English class and we were talking about that poem by - that one guy. David Frost. 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood-' You know this poem, right? 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could, to where it bent in the undergrowth-" "I loved that poem. But I remember thinking to myself: Why? How come you can't travel both? That seemed really unfair to me.

  Dan Chaon

  Sorry, Thinking, Two

  Dan Chaon (2009). “Await Your Reply: A Novel”, p.100, Ballantine Books

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• If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

  James A. Michener

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  "Good Advice". Book by William Safire and Leonard Safir, 1982.

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