Beautiful Detours Quotes & Sayings

Leave me alone, you big fat shitburger! — Chris Crutcher

The earliest Greek philosopher's criticized Homer's mythology because the gods resembled mortals too much and were just as egotistic and treacherous. — Jostein Gaarder

You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are. — Jonathan Carroll

You see why the psalm threw me for a loop. The first verse has God presiding over an assembly of gods. Doesn't that sound like a pantheon - something we associate with polytheism and mythology? — Michael S. Heiser

I've noticed that some people are serial goal setters, rather than habit formers. — Gretchen Rubin

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile. — Robert Zemeckis

We can embrace our whole life story in the knowledge that we have been graced and made beautiful by the providence of our past history. All the wrong turns in the past, the detours, mistakes, moral lapses, everything that is irrevocably ugly or painful, melts and dissolves in the warm glow of accepted tenderness. As theologian Kevin O'Shea writes, "One rejoices in being unfrightened to be open to the healing presence, no matter what one might be or what one might have done." - A Glimpse of Jesus — Brennan Manning

Losing her was the worst of it, but loving her hurt almost as much sometimes. — Catherine M. Wilson

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins. — Aldous Huxley

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures. — Alexander Pope

Spirit is strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money. I had done network sitcoms. I had a nest egg. — Lizzy Caplan

Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end. — Damian Woetzel

The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain and Lazarus. — Annie Dillard

You're my favorite person, you know ... you're my favorite person, too. — Jenn Bennett