#detour

Roger, he has a chain saw," I hissed. "I am not going to die in Kentucky! ↗

— Morgan Matson

#humor #humor

We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#always #asked #because #before #decided

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#being #dead #dead end #defeat #delay

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#filled #good #good intentions #goodwill #hell

He stood and looked at me for a moment, taking in my outfit. "You look hot." "What? Me?" I stammered, completely flummoxed. "Yeah," he said, still looking at me. "Oh. Um, thank you. I mean, not that you don’t, but I’m not sure that you should—I mean …" "Oh, no," Roger said quickly, and I could see that he was blushing again. "No. I mean—I meant what you’re wearing. Are you going to be too warm? ↗

— Morgan Matson

#amy-roger-s-epic-detour #funny #roger #funny

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. ↗

— Doug Larson

#detours #establishing #goals #interesting #right

You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#assembly #automatic #away #basically #conflict

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#detours #many #mistakes #roads

If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm asking for your vote. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#believe #destiny #detour #disappointments #few

I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view. ↗

— Michael York

#believe #destiny #detours #enjoy #i