All Roads Lead Quotes & Sayings

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it. — Charles De Lint

Plots within plots, but all roads lead down the dragon's gullet. — George R R Martin

All roads lead to Johannesburg. — Alan Paton

One of the powerful functions of a library - any library - lies in its ability to take us away from worlds that are familiar and comfortable and into ones which we can neither predict nor control, to lead us down new roads whose contours and vistas provide us with new perspectives. Sometimes, if we are fortunate, those other worlds turn out to have more points of familiarity with our own than we had thought. Sometimes we make connections back to familiar territory and when we have returned, we do so supplied with new perspectives, which enrich our lives as scholars and enhance our role as teachers. Sometimes the experience takes us beyond our immediate lives as scholars and teachers, and the library produces this result particularly when it functions as the storehouse of memory, a treasury whose texts connect us through time to all humanity.
[Browsing in the Western Stacks, Harvard Library Bulletin NS 6(3): 27-33, 1995] — Richard F. Thomas

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down. — Stanislaw Lem

All roads lead to Johannesburg. If you are white or if you are black they lead to Johannesburg. If the crops fail, there is work in Johannesburg. If there are taxes to be paid, there is work in Johannesburg. If the farm is too small to be divided further, some must go to Johannesburg. If there is a child to be born that must be delivered in secret, it can be delivered in Johannesburg. — Alan Paton

No one will ever be you. All roads lead to you, Mason. No one else matters because I'm always going towards you. — Tijan

Love is the secret you unmask yourself to find; it is the foundation of the spiritual life, the destination where all roads of the journey lead. — Elizabeth Lesser

All roads lead to the judgment seat of Christ. — Keith Green

Regardless the destination, all roads lead home. — H. L. Balcomb

Our knowledge and all of our ideas are mutually connected; the more complicated they are, the more numerous must be the roads that lead to them and depart from them. — Cesare Beccaria

All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The only furniture in the dank space was a flimsy cot. Water dripped steadily in one corner. A hole in the floor appeared to serve as a latrine. What most caught Kendra's eye were the messages scratched on the wall. She roamed the cell, reading the crudely inscribed phrases.

"Seth rules!

Welcome to Seth's House.

Seth rocks!

Seth was here. Now it's your turn.

Seth Sorenson forever.

Enjoy the food!

If you're reading this, you can read.

All roads lead to Seth.

Is it still dripping?

Seth haunts these halls.

You're in a Turkish prison!

Seth is the man!

Use the meal mats as toilet paper." And so forth.

Cold, hopeless, and alone, Kendra found herself giggling at the messages her brother had scrawled. He must have been so bored! — Brandon Mull

All roads lead past shooting ranges, liquor stores, and gay bars. Wanderlust is part of the American Spirit. — Andrew Smith

Why, I wondered, is there such hostility to one faith in this Hindu culture that believes all roads lead to heaven? They should be the most tolerant of all. What is it about the Judeo-Christian message that makes it so offensive? Ironically, the Indians may understand the heart of the gospel - that Christ is King, with all that portends - better than many in the 'Christian' West. — Charles Colson

There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam Hussein. — Ron Wyden

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time. — Charles Hazlewood

(My dove my little one
tonight there will be wine and drunken suitors
from the logging camps to pin you down
in the outlying lands of sleep
where all roads lead back to the home-village
and water may be walked on) — Al Purdy

We are all running toward something, girl. Life or death, and eventually we learn that all roads lead to death. — Sarah Felix Burns

See, I think there are roads that lead us to each other. But in my family, there were no roads - just underground tunnels. I think we all got lost in those underground tunnels. No, not lost. We just lived there. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end. — Isaac Asimov

All roads from Rousseau lead to Sade. — Camille Paglia

All roads lead to where you are, right now. — Robin Spielberg

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal. — Richard Le Gallienne

Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind. — Salvador Dali

Idolatry isn't just one of many sins; rather it's the one great sin that all others come from. So if you start scratching at whatever struggle you're dealing with, eventually you'll find that underneath it is a false god. Until that god is dethroned, and the Lord God takes his rightful place, you will not have victory. Idolatry isn't an issue; it is the issue. All roads lead to the dusty, overlooked concept of false gods. Deal with life on the glossy outer layers, and you might never see it; scratch a little beneath the surface, and you begin to see that it's always there, under some other coat of paint. There are a hundred million different symptoms, but the issue is always idolatry. — Kyle Idleman

Not all roads that lead down lead up as well. — Ursula K. Le Guin

There are quests and roads that lead ever onward, and all of them end in the same place - upon the killing ground. — Stephen King

Happiness is a state of the soul; a state in which our natures are full of the wine of an ancient youth, in which banquets last for ever, and roads lead everywhere, where all things are under the exuberant leadership of faith, hope, and charity. — G.K. Chesterton

All roads are long which lead to one's heart's desire. — Joseph Conrad

Any avenue that you follow leads to light. All roads lead to Rome. — Frederick Lenz

All roads lead to Amber, he said, as though it were an axiom. — Roger Zelazny

All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

At Christmas, all roads lead home. — Marjorie Holmes

There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way. — Terry Pratchett

The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike out in a new direction, in a new way, armed with our own self-regard, our own confidence and fully appreciating our own uniqueness. All other roads will lead us into the shadow of great powers. — Paul Keating

No-one can own our Lord Buddha. That would be a foolish claim, but the roads that lead to him, the Way... That is a different matter. They are all filled with toll-gates, like the roads of Japan, and the monks collect the fees. — Erik Christian Haugaard

Just keep moving! we're almost there." "almost where?" Juno chuckled. "all roads lead there child. you should know that" "detention?" Percy asked. "Rome, child, the old woman said. "Rome — Rick Riordan

Make your own dream.
That's the Beatles' story, isn't it? That's Yoko's story, that's what I'm saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.
That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be.
There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you. — John Lennon

But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell. — Neal Shusterman

All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground. — Henry James

Juno: "All roads lead there child. You should know that."
Percy: "Detention? — Rick Riordan

Jesus is gentle, but He is not weak. He loves the sinner but is absolutely intolerant of sin. He is not a negotiator. He is Lord. It is this bristling truth that invites intolerance toward Christians. Jesus did not say, "Do your own thing ... all roads lead to God." That would have made Jesus "politically correct," but Jesus is not politically correct. He is Lord. — Franklin Graham

It's amazing how many different roads we can take, but they all lead home. — Jewel E. Ann

There are those who say that all roads lead to God. But Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me" [John 14:6 KJV]. — Billy Graham

All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths. — Jean De La Fontaine

All paths lead to truth. All roads lead to God — Heidi Telpner

All roads lead to Rome; which is one reason why many people never get there. — G.K. Chesterton

Being in grief, it turns out, is not unlike being in love.
In both states, the imagination's entirely occupied with one person. The beloved dwells at the heart of the world, and becomes a Rome: the roads of feeling all lead to him, all proceed from him. Everything that touches us seems to relate back to that center: there is no other emotional life, no place outside the universe of feeling centered on its pivotal figure. — Mark Doty

All roads lead to something you were predestined to do. — Fredrik Backman

All roads that lead to God are good. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

All roads lead to the earth; the abyss leads to God. Jump! — Nikos Kazantzakis

All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live. — Dana Spiotta

If you don't know where you're going, all roads lead there. — Laurence Eubank

I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to. — Willie Nelson

All roads lead to another road for renegades, rebels, and rogues. — Tracy Lawrence

All roads lead to success. Yours...or someone else's — Chris Martinez

People rise from unbelievably bleak and desperate ashes to be the one flower in a graveyard to blossom. The sun is always there. But the flower has to be ready to blossom. "That's crazy" is a roadmap. Start with that phrase and circle it. Then draw all the roads that lead out from that spot. They don't all have to end up at the place you expect. Have fun with it. Find different roads and see where they lead. — James Altucher

No one appreciates a professional anymore. Everyone's a mystic. Which is why I take drunk Jim over acid Jim - the argument all roads eventually lead to. — Dan Bejar

All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point. — Eric Thomas

Cultivate an understanding that life is long, that people both change and remain the same, that every last one of us will need to fuck up and be forgiven, that we're all just walking and walking and walking and trying to find our way, that all roads lead eventually to the mountaintop. — Cheryl Strayed

What is most important to us? What do we love? What is most dear to us?2 We shouldn't be surprised that these questions get to the core of our being. They also point to where we are headed. All roads eventually lead to our relationship with God. Do we love what he loves? Is he most dear to us? — Edward T. Welch

She often said that "all roads lead to something you were always predestined to do." And for her, perhaps, it was something.

But for Ove it was someone. — Fredrik Backman

Your heart is your home, and all roads lead to home. — Gary Zukav

All the world's roads lead to the heart of the Warrior. — Paulo Coelho

Society is composed of men, and every man is a FREE agent. Since man is free, he can choose; since he can choose, he can err; since he can err, he can suffer. I go further: He must err and he must suffer; for his starting point is ignorance, and in his ignorance he sees before him an infinite number of unknown roads, all of which save one lead to error. — Frederic Bastiat

She was well away from the city now, watching for the turning onto Route 39, that magic thread of road Dr. Montague had chosen for her, out of all the roads in the world, to bring her safely to him and to Hill House; no other road could lead her from where she was to where she wanted to be. — Shirley Jackson

No one had told us what to do. Our eyes had been opened by the Lord. We knew that there was no compromise, no possible blending of Hinduism and true Christianity. They were diametrically opposed. One was darkness, the other light. One represented the many roads that all lead to the same destruction; the other was, as Jesus had said, the narrow road to eternal life. — Rabi R. Maharaj

All roads lead to 'American Pie.' 'As American as apple pie' was the saying. It was some kind of a big American song that I wanted to write, which would be a conclusion for my show and bring all the songs home, which it still does. I can go anywhere I want with American music and come home to that. And it all makes sense. — Don McLean