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Life is a dead-end street. -- H. L. Mencken
I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end. -- Rudy Rucker
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. -- Zig Ziglar
Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues. -- Cullen Hightower
My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings. -- Rick Smolan
When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society. -- K. D. Lang
I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way. -- Viggo Mortensen
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again. -- Helen Fisher
My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape Cod, so I turn the trees into firewood for us and a friend of mine sells the rest. -- Sebastian Junger
For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people. -- J. Michael Straczynski
A puzzle is not a dead-end. -- Lewis N. Roe
Cinema has reached a dead end. -- Peter Greenaway
War would end if the dead could return. -- Stanley Baldwin
Hallucination is a raw climb to a dead end. -- Akiane Kramarik
Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking. -- John C. Maxwell
God won't tie your soul to a dead-end dream. -- Lou Engle
Going down in history is a dead end pursuit -- Benny Bellamacina
Only the dead have seen the end of war. -- Plato
I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end. -- Brenda Laurel
Only the dead have seen the end of the war. -- George Santayana
Only the dead will know the end of the war. -- Plato
A dead end street is a good place to turn around. -- Naomi Judd
The longer a dead-end, the more it looks like a road. -- Mikhail Turovsky
There are no dead ends in life, only dead end thinking. -- Orrin Woodward
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why. -- William Wallace
Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end. -- Jonathan Chait
Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught. -- Pawan Mishra
Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end. -- Byron Katie
We may all end up dead, but we're sticking it to them in the meantime. -- Cinda Williams Chima
If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first chapter... -- Kelly Nelson
Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street. -- William Arthur Ward
Better try to stay wide awake, or you might end up found dead by the lake. -- Eminem
I bought a house on a one-way dead-end road. I don't know how I got there. -- Steven Wright
We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism. -- John Blair
People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets -- Charles R. Swindoll
Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine! -- Jon Gordon
I find that the dead-end route is to try to describe what's going on in your mouth. -- Pete Wells
The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us. -- Irving Penn
I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there. -- Steven Wright
Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end. -- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
I wouldn't mind dying so much if it wasn't that I would be dead at the end of it. -- Woody Allen
A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road. -- Robert Foster Bennett
A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road. -- Robert Foster Bennett
I live at the end of a dead end one way street. I don't know how I got there. -- Steven Wright
James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end. -- Edward Abbey
The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes -- Seth Godin
A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end. -- Fareed Zakaria
As I witness the dead of beloved ones, it makes be become more conscious that life indeed has an end. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness? -- Ellen Hopkins
You really had to learn to protect yourself from all Gooks in Vietnam, or else you would end up dead. -- Peter P. Mahoney
Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a Summer's day; Sweet Love is dead. -- William Allingham
Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed. -- Camille Paglia
After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive. -- Arthur Miller
The one-word cinema wasn't possible for me anymore. I'd hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I'd turn back. -- Abbas Kiarostami
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. -- Zig Ziglar
There's no such thing as a lost cause, or a dead end. Through persistence, attitude, and creativity, there's always an escape route. -- Urijah Faber
Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them. -- William Hazlitt
Just because you've come to a dead end, it's not time to give up. Find a different route and keep pressing forward. -- Joel Osteen
Love is blind and little did I know, you were just another dead end road. Paved with pretty lies and broken dreams. -- Julie Roberts
I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound. -- James Crumley
You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead. -- Raymond E. Feist
It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. -- Greil Marcus
Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we? -- Pele
Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid. -- James A. Garfield
If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course -- Oprah Winfrey
The greatest thing about golf, there's no end to it unless you're dead. You just go from here to the Senior Tour. -- Fuzzy Zoeller
Every lie a person tells is an emotional dead end road that puts weight on the heart. Satisfaction is always in the truth. -- Ron Baratono
Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants. -- Woody Allen
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Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly. -- Taylor Swift
The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead! -- Stokely Carmichael
I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music. -- Cass McCombs
To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. -- Jane Jacobs
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it. -- Plato
The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead. -- Michael Ian Black
If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force.... -- Ehud Barak
I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with nostalgia for an era gone by. -- Bruno Grandi
The democratic world has come to a dead end; likewise, the communist world has come to a dead end. But the Unification Church is just beginning! -- Sun Myung Moon
I do a lot of things hopin I never had to fit in, so tryin to keep up with my progress is like a dead end. -- Drake
If you don't think you need to develop your personal brand, my advice for you comes in the wisdom of two road signs: STOP; DEAD END. -- Jarod Kintz
War is not one-sided. It takes two blades to clash. It matters little who comes out on top, there is still a dead man at the end. -- Mitch Rowland
I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore. -- William Manchester
In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don't devote resources to focusing on that; you go elsewheres. -- Michael Bloomberg
In exchange for ten years of being on top, I'm gonna end up in prison or I'm gonna end up dead, and there's something fascinating about that. -- Brian Helgeland
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end. -- Robert Morgan
Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind. -- John Jeremiah Sullivan
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful -- Albert Camus
They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night. -- Angela Carter
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind. -- John Jeremiah Sullivan
A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course! -- Naomi Judd
If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down. -- Rihanna
Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead. -- Eric Drooker
It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end. -- Rick Warren
Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out. -- Cheryl Strayed
i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk on air through vacant lots -- Saul Williams
Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This is a dead-end track, fraught with a big catastrophe. -- Vladimir Putin
Falling in love with a house or a car or a pair of shoes, it was a dead end. You save your love for the things that can love you back. -- David Wong
There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people. -- Thomas Sowell
I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.' -- Robert H. Schuller
When we attempt to find meaning in the pursuit of pleasure, the commitment to a job, or through plumbing intellectual depths, we all eventually find in each of these pursuits a dead end. -- Charles R. Swindoll
After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end. - Saphira -- Christopher Paolini
Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies. -- Buzz Aldrin

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