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  • Love is blind and little did I know, you were just another dead end road. Paved with pretty lies and broken dreams. -- Julie Roberts
  • Hell is paved with priests' skulls. -- Saint John Chrysostom
  • The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress. -- Philip Roth
  • I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes. -- Michael Leunig
  • The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick. -- L. Frank Baum
  • The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming. -- Sally Ride
  • The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds. -- George Allen, Sr.
  • The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear. -- Baron de Montesquieu
  • Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. -- Aldous Huxley
  • It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also. -- Robert Southey
  • As cities have grown rapidly across the nation, many have neglected infrastructure projects and paved over green spaces that once absorbed rainwater. -- Charles Duhigg
  • I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you. -- Drew Barrymore
  • 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. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
  • I'm overjoyed and honored to become a member of the Hollywood Records family. I've admired the careers they've made and can't wait to see how my musical path is paved out. -- Lucy Hale
  • Most Evangelicals have the church to thank for the Sunday-school classes that taught us what the Bible says and paved the way for our eventual decisions to commit our lives to Christ. -- Tony Campolo
  • The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens. -- Robert Fortune
  • I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway. -- Michael N. Castle
  • Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow. -- Angie Dickinson
  • Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones. -- Beau Willimon
  • I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that. -- Megyn Kelly
  • For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries. -- Norman Borlaug
  • Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy. -- Mark Zandi
  • There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today. -- Mitt Romney
  • I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me. -- Elena Kagan
  • I'm a rapper... Gaga's a fantastic artist, you know, she paved her way. She's opened her own lane. But I think that I have my own lane. And we never cross. Ever. So, you know, I really don't get the comparison anymore. Our music doesn't sound the same. Our stage presence is not the same. I just can't see the similarities. -- Nicki Minaj
  • I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them. -- Patricia Briggs
  • Hell is paved with infants skulls. -- Richard Baxter
  • Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William Holden
  • Hell is paved with priests' skulls. -- Saint John Chrysostom
  • The road to hell is paved with adverbs. -- Stephen King
  • Hell is not all paved with bad intentions. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved. -- William James
  • All great roads are paved with uncomfortable memories. -- Amy Neftzger
  • Relationships are definitely not a road paved with roses. -- Alex Karpovsky
  • Larry Walker paved the way for guys like me. -- Jason Bay
  • They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. -- Joni Mitchell
  • The road to hell is paved with good intentions. -- Samuel Johnson
  • The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. -- Elbert Hubbard
  • The road to ignorance is paved with good editors. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • The road to health is paved with good intestines! -- Sherry A. Rogers
  • The streets of hell are paved with good intentions. -- Shania Twain
  • Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.... -- Dorothy Parker
  • The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs. -- Ernest Hemingway
  • The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation. -- Alan Cohen
  • The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes -- Julie Powell
  • The path of destiny is not always paved smooth with gold. -- A.J. Darkholme
  • You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved. -- Bob Marley
  • Nobody paved the way for me, Jesus paved the way for me, -- Tamar Braxton
  • The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference. -- Ian Kershaw
  • The road to Hell is paved with the best of conscious intentions. -- Elizabeth F. Howell
  • The journey to freedom is paved by the substance of our character. -- Erwin McManus
  • On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying -- Robert Jordan
  • The information superhighway is a dirt road that won't be paved over until 2025. -- Sumner Redstone
  • Maybe I didn't go to the sexy football school, but I paved my way. -- Rahim Moore
  • A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end. -- Alan Brennert
  • Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • My parents meant well, but the road to Hell is paved with publicity stunts. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt. -- Karl Kraus
  • I don't know, but I've been told, the streets of hell are paved with gold. -- Alice Cooper
  • You might be a redneck if directions to your house include turn off the paved road. -- Jeff Foxworthy
  • If we ever walk in streets paved with gold, we will have placed it there ourselves. -- Brigham Young
  • Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it. -- Vincent Van Gogh
  • The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear. -- Baron de Montesquieu
  • The road to greatness is often sought, but if journeyed with kindness, it is sweetly paved. -- Tom Althouse
  • The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness. -- Paul P. Harris
  • Skrillex. The man is a genius and paved a new way for music and it's very inspiring. -- Christina Grimmie
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  • I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. -- Stephen King
  • One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread. -- John Perry Barlow
  • Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs. -- Larry Wall
  • The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men. -- Beeban Kidron
  • The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting. -- Paulette Jiles
  • All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it. -- Alan Cohen
  • The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops. -- Edward Abbey
  • Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other. -- Heywood Broun
  • The path to obesity is paved with bacon and white bread; the way to skinny is built on apples and Ezekiel. -- Bob Harper
  • You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road. The roots are deep inside us, it's the rhythm in our soul. -- Brian Wilson
  • Peopleâ??s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable â?? deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. -- Alice Munro
  • Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels. -- Andrew Motion
  • If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built. -- Van Jones
  • I don't give a damn if I go to hell. I love you Satan. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. -- Madonna Ciccone
  • The further along we get on our life journey the more we wonder about those who traveled before us and paved the road. -- Richard Paul Evans
  • The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity. -- Richard Koch
  • With their charm and legendary sense of humor, the British directly or indirectly paved the way for a large number of European compromises. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
  • I know that they [Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Florence Griffith-Joyner and even Wilma Rudolph] have paved the way and they have been a source of inspiration. -- Allyson Felix
  • Being a Kapoor, acting is genetic. My sister paved the way for me when she became the first Kapoor girl to take up acting. -- Kareena Kapoor
  • People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold. -- Desmond Tutu
  • I have my favorite authors, but in reality, my mother did. Though she's never written a book, she paved the way for me to. -- Franny Armstrong
  • You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs. -- Shin Kyung-sook
  • Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out. -- Terry Tempest Williams
  • [ Hosting Saturday Night Live ] paved the way for Parks And Rec and The Grinder, the Comedy Central Roast, and that whole side of my career. -- Rob Lowe
  • The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide. -- Alexander Smith
  • The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange. -- Walt Whitman
  • You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs. -- Shin Kyung-sook
  • The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path. -- Saint John Chrysostom
  • I'm a huge fan of Jonathan Winters. He's influenced everyone who's ever done improvisational comedy. You look to Jonathan Winters for inspiration. He paved the way. -- Rob Reiner
  • Make a man laugh a good hearty laugh, and you've paved the way for friendship. When a man laughs with you, he, to some extent, likes you. -- Dale Carnegie
  • I did not know at the time, but what I did at that swimming pool [on the east side of Wilmington] paved the way for Barack Obama. -- Joe Biden
  • Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions. -- Tucker Max
  • Remember that I am just a woman who is living a very abundant life. Every step I take forward is on a path paved by strong Indian women before me. -- Wilma Mankiller
  • The road to hell is paved in good intentions and apathy,What did you expect when common sense is your enemy?I'd rather burn alive than drown inside your reality -- Of Mice & Men
  • In the Navy, the path is paved for you. Your job is to be a soldier and fit in. As long as you stick to your place, it's actually really easy. -- Kiesza
  • To the world you may be just one person but to one person you may be the world The road to finding 'the one' is paved with a bit of promiscuity. -- Tim Robbins
  • Loretta Lynn was one of those ladies a long time ago that opened a lot of doors and paved the way for a lot of ballsy singer-songwriters who weren't just cute. -- Kacey Musgraves
  • The road to hell isn't paved with gold, it's paved with faith. Faith in a dollar that's backed by a belief that people have faith in other people's belief in it. -- Jarod Kintz
  • I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah. -- Tracee Ellis Ross
  • Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities. -- Isaac Watts
  • Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know "why" I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved. -- Will Rogers
  • I'm very proud of Space 1999. Its success paved the way for other sci-fi shows to follow. My hope is that the DVD release will help it reach a new generation of fans. -- Martin Landau
  • I'm very proud of Space 1999. Its success paved the way for other sci-fi shows to follow. My hope is that the DVD release will help it reach a new generation of fans -- Martin Landau
  • Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind. -- Ayn Rand
  • By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, "it," he paved the way for other words, words that would reflect physical love as in a set of mirrors. -- Milan Kundera
  • The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything I am being sympathetic, not satiric for the very best reasons. -- Randall Jarrell
  • Romanians have a saying, 'Not every dog has a bagel on its tail.' It means that not all streets are paved with gold. When I began my career, I just wanted to do cartwheels. -- Nadia Comaneci
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