Two Roads Quotes

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  Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)

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• 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.

  Robert Frost

  Sorry, Taken, Journey

  Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.21, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

  Xunzi

  Travel, Life And Love, Two

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• You couldn't take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back.

  Kami Garcia

  Two

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Beautiful Creatures”, p.93, Penguin UK

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• Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

  Clive Bell

  Religious, Art, Mean

  'Art' (1914) pt. 2, ch. 1

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• There are two roads to every place, and the wise man chooses the pleasant one.

  Phyllis Bentley

  Wise, Men, Two

  Phyllis Bentley (1954). “The House of Moreys”

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• There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . Inorder to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not inself-seeking but in self-forgetting.

  Theodor Reik

  Love, Two, Self

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• We all have points in our lives where two roads present themselves and we have to make a decision very fast. We don't know how it will impact our lives, but it usually does.

  Stephanie Zimbalist

  Impact, Two, Decision

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• Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women alike. One is the broad, well-traveled road to mediocrity, the other road to greatness and meaning.

  Stephen Covey

  Success, Greatness, Men

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

  Bodhidharma

  Wisdom, Practice, Two

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.3, Macmillan

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• Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Two, Chosen, Thirds

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• He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

  Victor Hugo

  Two, Lines, Saws

  "Les Miserables".

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• Traditional people of Indian nations have interpreted the two roads that face the light-skinned race as the road to technology and the road to spirituality. We feel that the road to technology.... has led modern society to a damaged and seared earth. Could it be that the road to technology represents a rush to destruction, and that the road to spirituality represents the slower path that the traditional native people have traveled and are now seeking again? The earth is not scorched on this trail. The grass is still growing there.

  William Commanda

  Native American, Technology, Two

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• You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the difference is? Isn't that what he's supposed to say? Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Mean, Differences, Two

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• Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry - and found them both equally misleading. Perhaps it will now try the third, the road of scientific truth, the only road on which the passenger is not deceived. Science does not, ostrich-like, bury its head amidst perils and difficulties. It tries to see everything exactly as everything is.

  Garrett P. Serviss

  Religious, Two, Ostriches

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• Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Men, Two

  'Art' (1914) pt. 2, ch. 1

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• There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Mean, Two, Class

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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• We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. 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. The other fork of the road - the one less traveled by - offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Women, Lying

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

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Fun, Adventure

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.650, Velvet Element Books

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• I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is said to set up shop there if you want to swap your soul for something more useful. If you believe that God can be bribed, it's also the hallowed ground to make sacrifices. In the literal sense, it's also a place to change direction, but once you've changed it, you're stuck until you come to another crossroads, and who knows how long that will be.

  Tayari Jones

  Religious, Believe, Sacrifice

  Tayari Jones (2012). “Silver Sparrow”, p.133, Algonquin Books

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Summer

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• Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.

  Joss Whedon

  Two, People, Ironic

  Bronze Beta web message board, www.cise.ufl.edu. February 14, 2004.

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• I mean,you will have an Afghan government. There are two roads here. One is obviously a run-off election or a negotiated settlement. But what's most important about that process is that there's a credibility and a legitimacy to the government at the end of that process. So which road they choose, that's up to them. It must have - be legitimate and credible in the eyes of the Afghan people.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Running, Mean, Eye

  "Rahm Emanuel, Senator Kerry, Senator Cornyn on "Face the Nation"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 18, 2009.

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• There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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• The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to Life, and there is the road that leads to Death. There is Good, and there is Evil. There is Right and there is Wrong.

  Peter Kreeft

  Two, Evil, Maps

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