[...]to be real--to become fluent, natural, to cut out the detour that sweeps us around what's fundamental to events, preventing us from touching their core: the detour that makes us all second-hand and second-rate.
First off, let’s clear this up—fries are not a side dish and you can’t count those as a vegetable. Sorry.
Floating there I held onto faith. Because you can't know who might cross your path or who will take your breath away. You can't know what friends might actually become sisters because they stayed by your side. You can't know when there'll be an unexp...
A divorce is much like a ten-car pile up. It affects not just two drivers but a whole slew of perimeter vehicles that get caught in the chaos. Not even innocent bystanders come out unscathed.
Grocery shopping was intimidating...the aisles were filled with everything from jumbo to miniature travel-sized rations. Who could I call to ask, “Does the size even matter?” I dare not ask my ex-wife.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.
Guys, I know some of you are leaving that used frying pan on the stove overnight and using it the next day for another meal. You know who you are. That’s a gateway habit. Keep it up and before you know you’ll be growing mushrooms on your shower f...
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.
In second grade my second love wrote "I love you" on a scrap of paper and dropped it on my desk as he passed by. He was very shy and sullen. When he moved to another school at the end of the term, I was heartsick. I thought about him all summer. But ...
In his sovereignty, God looked down through history and specifically chose you to be the father of your child. He decided no one else could raise that boy or girl better than you. In all of history, there were no other guys better equipped to lead ou...
See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.
Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive.
Failure is a detour on the way to using Cosmic Ordering.
We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
It’s not about the destination. It’s getting there that’s the good part. - Leonard
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.
Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction.
