Switchback Quotes & Sayings

Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ. — John Piper

For a long while the past drops away from you easily and it would seem automatically, properly. Its scenes don't vanish so much as become irrelevant. And then there's a switchback, what's been all over and done with sprouting up fresh, wanting attention, even wanting you to do something about it, though it's plain there is not on this earth a thing to be done. — Alice Munro

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save. — John Gay

My ego is the wall between you and me. — Debasish Mridha

Great is the art,
Great be the manners, of the bard.
He shall not his brain encumber
With the coil of rhythm and number;
But, leaving rule and pale forethought,
He shall aye climb
For his rhyme.
"Pass in, pass in," the angels say — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as there are rich people who have poor people they can send to fight their wars.. We will never have peace — Chris Crass

We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience. — Luc De Clapiers

Switchback"

turn, turn,
and again,
hard scrabble
steep travel
ahead. — Gary Snyder

We can't pick our families or where we come from, Jet. All we can choose is who we want to become in spite of them, and because of them. — Jay Crownover

[Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are right by trying first to find whether they are not perhaps wrong. They work with bold conjectures and severe attempts at refuting their own conjectures. — Karl Popper

From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that in a culture rich with storytelling and fantastical tales, Shakespeare's characters and storylines resonated in a powerful way. — Felicity Kendal

I love both sports, but the deciding factor was, being a left-handed pitcher, I had a huge advantage in baseball because of that, and I didn't have that type of advantage in hockey. — Tom Glavine

Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. — Northrop Frye

I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw a large body on the trail ahead. It had brown fur with a cinnamon tinge that was draped across dense, humped back muscle. A broad head lifted and I could see the dish-shaped muzzle was catching my scent. I knew bears. This was a grizzly. — Claire Cameron

Everybody is talking about the Law of Attraction. Nobody is talking about the Law of Action. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 - 2005), who in his book 'Relativity and Common Sense' says:
... The surprising thing, surely, is that molecules in a gas behave so much as billiard balls, not that electrons behave so little like billiard balls. — Felix Alba-Juez

The past and the future are always present within us. — Thornton Wilder

I dream the dreams of the young,' he said. 'And they are always dreams of being older, and richer, and wiser, and stronger, don't you think? — Anne Rice

Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me. — Charles Bukowski