Detour Quotes

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

The longest way round is the shortest way home

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

We're lost, but we're making good time.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

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.

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.

If you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

That’s a detour.

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

The detour is always rougher than the main road

Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

Things have a way of being richer in the end, a product better made, for the circuitous route we take to include all the elements that are necessary for a job well done.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

Thinking of Plan B muddies up your chances of succeeding at Plan A.

When the truth is in your way, you are on the wrong road.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm asking for your vote.