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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.

People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.

That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.

When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

God has a plan for you - I can promise you that. Your life is sacred. There is and always has been a path for your soul, and if you follow that path, it will lead you to the inner utopia that your soul longs to experience in this lifetime.

The best path through life is the highway.

With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was made.

Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.

There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.

I would say that my downswing mirrors the path of my backswing pretty closely.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology

I think all the bad things I have been through are in the past. I believe I am on the right path now, dealing with the people who can help me, the right kind of people.

The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle country, routed through boulder fields, across angular juttings of granite and along a path with an unrelenting barrage of roots, rocks and mud, all of it hidden under slick leaves and dangling nettles.

I want to pave my own path artistically.

I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead.

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety.

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

The old university attitude of 'publish or perish' has changed. Students and academics are realising that institutions such as Imperial College are also wealth-generators. It is very satisfying to be in a university where you have the freedom to innovate and yet know that there is a path to translate your work into industry.

You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.

The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move.

I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result

I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.

I'm drawn to the path of least resistance.

The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.

I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with.

Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.

My humor is a lot like Kristen Wiig's from 'Saturday Night Live' or 'Bridesmaids.' Quirky, off the beaten path.

From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.

As a writer, as a lyricist, you're just trying to make sure that you're not repeating yourself. And that's a danger for a lot of people. So for me, I just try to keep taking corners and trying to find new paths.

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.

All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.

I would like to be someone like Steve Martin. That's the path I'd like to follow.

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

I think there's a path cut for us, a destination mapped out. Everyone ends up where they're meant to be, and how they got there doesn't really matter.

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud of, considering the obstacles placed in your path if you are gay.

I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them.

If you are living a life that feels right to you, if you're willing to take creative chances or a creative path that feels like it's mostly in keeping with your sensibilities, you know, aesthetic and artistic, then that's what matters.

Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

I want my children to be proud of their father and to say, 'My father is the best dad in the world.' And I want them to belong to a modern family, and live a path of happiness and calm.

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.

I believe my father has and always will be the strongest influence in my life, as he has guided me on many paths.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.

It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us.

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

Sometimes you have to create a vision, a path for a vision. It may not be apparent, and you may have to forge it yourself. And that will be the way to move your life forward.

Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42.

My path is exactly where I want it to be. I'm doing my thing. I'm getting better with every album.

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.

The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.

I'm a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It's funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take.

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.

Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.

The Savior warns that if we start along the path and go far enough and then fail and deny Him, it would have been better if we had never begun.

I personally claim no special insight into Satan's methods, but I have at times been able to identify his influence and his actions in my life and in the lives of others. When I was on my first mission, Satan sought to divert me from my future path and, if possible, to destroy my usefulness in the Lord's work.

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.