Quotes of: Rough-road Keyword

God is merciful cant we all be on the right track of faith but just using different roads?

Ali Al-Ahmed

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Ambrose Bierce

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Albert Einstein

Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.

Alice McCall

My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

Ayelet Waldman

My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.

Wayne Wonder

Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

Tom Waits

Rain is Nature's way of telling us to go slowly because the roads will soon be wet.

Life

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

Vladimir Putin

When you're on the road, you have to be louder and you have to communicate. That's really the bottom line.

Vinny Testaverde

An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.

William Stafford

Other priests, he knew, found an intense pleasure in the raw, salty dialect of peasant conversation. They picked up pearls of wisdom and experience over a farmhouse table or a cup of wine in a workingman's kitchen. They talked with equal familiarity ...

The Devil's Advocate

He is dangerous," Alton said, his voice rough. She parted her lips to refute his claim. His heated gaze studied her mouth. For a moment, she thought he wanted to kiss her. At the dining table. In front of her brother. Cook, who had just entered the d...

Dragon Fae

Getting out of a marriage is rough, though, and not just for the legal / financial complications or the massive lifestyle upheaval. (As my friend Deborah once advised me wisely: "Nobody ever died from splitting up furniture.") It's the emotional reco...

Eat, Pray, Love

BAIT GOAT There is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will approach. But watch out: roving packs can pull your word a...

The Best of It: New and Selected Poems

We should call on the Creator to show more modesty. He created the world in a frenzy of excitement. Instead of revising his rough drafts, he had his work printed straightaway. What a lot of contradictions there are in it. What a log of typing errors,...

An Armenian Sketchbook

I was washing outside in the darkness, the sky burning with rough stars, and the starlight, salt on an axe-blade. The cold overflows the barrel. The gate's locked, the land's grim as its conscience. I don't think they'll find the new weaving, finer t...

The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology

I know it is hard for you young mothers to believe that almost before you can turn around the children will be gone and you will be alone with your husband. You had better be sure you are developing the kind of love and friendship that will be deligh...

Small and Simple Things

Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a...

The Scent of Water

So at most companies, an unspoken compact emerges: It's okay to be ambitious, but if you play too rough, your peers will unite against you. On the other hand, if you focus on boosting your own department, rather than undermining your rival, you'll pr...

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparin...

Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback