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  • The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

  • Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.

    Two   Chosen   Thirds  
  • You couldn't take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back.

    Two   Two Roads  
    Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Beautiful Creatures”, p.93, Penguin UK
  • I mean,you will have an Afghan government. There are two roads here. One is obviously a run-off election or a negotiated settlement. But what's most important about that process is that there's a credibility and a legitimacy to the government at the end of that process. So which road they choose, that's up to them. It must have - be legitimate and credible in the eyes of the Afghan people.

    Running   Mean   Eye  
    "Rahm Emanuel, Senator Kerry, Senator Cornyn on "Face the Nation"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 18, 2009.
  • If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

    "Good Advice". Book by William Safire and Leonard Safir, 1982.
  • The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.

    Lying   Long   Progress  
    "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson, (p. 277), 1962.
  • We all have points in our lives where two roads present themselves and we have to make a decision very fast. We don't know how it will impact our lives, but it usually does.

    Impact   Two   Decision  
  • Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

    "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)
  • There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

  • Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry - and found them both equally misleading. Perhaps it will now try the third, the road of scientific truth, the only road on which the passenger is not deceived. Science does not, ostrich-like, bury its head amidst perils and difficulties. It tries to see everything exactly as everything is.

  • Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

    Art   Men   Two  
    'Art' (1914) pt. 2, ch. 1
  • We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road - the one less traveled by - offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

    Nature   Women   Lying  
    "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson, (p. 277), 1962.
  • The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to Life, and there is the road that leads to Death. There is Good, and there is Evil. There is Right and there is Wrong.

    Two   Evil   Maps  
  • Each civilization may choose one of two roads to travel, that is, either fret itself to death, or pet itself to death. And in the course of doing one or the other, it eats its way into the Universe, turning cinders and flinders of stars into toilet seats, pegs, gears, cigarette holders and pillowcases, and it does this because, unable to fathom the Universe, it seeks to change that Fathomlessness into Something Fathomable.

    "The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel. "Tale of the Three Storytelling Machines of King Genius", §10, 1974.
  • There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser.

    Mean   Two   Class  
    The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.
  • Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women alike. One is the broad, well-traveled road to mediocrity, the other road to greatness and meaning.

    Success   Greatness   Men  
    Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
  • I can't understand how people can settle for having just one life. I remember we were in English class and we were talking about that poem by - that one guy. David Frost. 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood-' You know this poem, right? 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could, to where it bent in the undergrowth-" "I loved that poem. But I remember thinking to myself: Why? How come you can't travel both? That seemed really unfair to me.

    Sorry   Thinking   Two  
    Dan Chaon (2009). “Await Your Reply: A Novel”, p.100, Ballantine Books
  • I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is said to set up shop there if you want to swap your soul for something more useful. If you believe that God can be bribed, it's also the hallowed ground to make sacrifices. In the literal sense, it's also a place to change direction, but once you've changed it, you're stuck until you come to another crossroads, and who knows how long that will be.

    Tayari Jones (2012). “Silver Sparrow”, p.133, Algonquin Books
  • The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).

    Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.164, Penguin
  • Two roads diverged in a wood, I took the one less travelled I'm patient so that's one less hassle If I dream it, I can live it I've seen the light with vivid imagery I need to write with fits of energy But it's hard tryin' to get where I'm goin' Without a hint or an omen It's too late to turn around Perseverance, gotta learn it now But I'm stubborn how Am I supposed to survive this rollercoaster hurtlin' to the ground?

  • There are two roads to every place, and the wise man chooses the pleasant one.

    Wise   Men   Two  
    Phyllis Bentley (1954). “The House of Moreys”
  • Traditional people of Indian nations have interpreted the two roads that face the light-skinned race as the road to technology and the road to spirituality. We feel that the road to technology.... has led modern society to a damaged and seared earth. Could it be that the road to technology represents a rush to destruction, and that the road to spirituality represents the slower path that the traditional native people have traveled and are now seeking again? The earth is not scorched on this trail. The grass is still growing there.

  • Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.

    Two   People   Ironic  
    Bronze Beta web message board, www.cise.ufl.edu. February 14, 2004.
  • He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

    Two   Lines   Saws  
    "Les Miserables".
  • Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

    Sorry   Taken   Journey  
    Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.21, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

    Wisdom   Practice   Two  
    Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.3, Macmillan
  • If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

    Religious   Art   Mean  
    'Art' (1914) pt. 2, ch. 1
  • You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the difference is? Isn't that what he's supposed to say? Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

    Mean   Differences   Two  
  • There are two roadblocks in the way of transforming India into an economic giant and one of them was education. I believe that if education is privatised at primary and secondary level, lot of our problems will be answered to

    Education   Believe   Two  
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