Quotes about Crossroads

I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day. Votes: 6

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. Votes: 4

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. Votes: 4

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads. Votes: 4

I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it. Votes: 4

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism. Votes: 4

I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America. Votes: 4

Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping. Votes: 4

I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler. Votes: 4

Greece is at a crucial crossroads. The choices that are made and the policies that are enforced will have a decisive impact on the wellbeing of Greeks. The way forward will not be easy but the problems can be solved, and will be solved, if there is unity, co-operation and consensus. Votes: 4

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on. Votes: 4

There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great. Votes: 4

I knew that the right person for Crossroads would come along if we were just patient and made sure that we didn't try to force anything. Votes: 3

Crossroads, what a disaster. Hundreds of millions of dollars wasted and no one is held responsible....people ought to be asking, 'What are you in business for?' Votes: 3

I had a role in 'Crossroads' when I was about 21, and then I went on to perform in 'Small Change' and then 'Piaf' in the Donmar Warehouse, London, and it was when I was there that some casting directors spotted me. Votes: 3

Thailand stands at a crossroads. Votes: 2

Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong. Votes: 2

The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads. Votes: 2

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly. Votes: 2

I've seen people go through divorces and stuff, crossroads that don't end well. Often. Votes: 2

Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy. Votes: 2

I think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change. Votes: 2

Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess. Votes: 2

Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Votes: 2

Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory. Votes: 2

How many crossroads are you allowed to have in life? I seem to have a lot of crossroads. I think maybe I crossed back across the same road too often. Votes: 2

When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born. Votes: 2

It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real. Votes: 2

At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable. Votes: 2

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. Votes: 2

Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx. Votes: 2

Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century--the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp--the horse-drawn car and auto car. Main Street is everyone's hometown- the heart line of America. Votes: 2

Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction. Votes: 2

I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if there are funerals coming out of prisons. I will criticize myself and I won't be the mayor of Diyarbakir. Votes: 2

When you lose a loved one, you come to these crossroads. You can take the path that leads you down the aisle of sadness, or you can say, 'I'm never going to let this person's memory die. I'm going to make sure everything they worked for continues.' Votes: 2

I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's next! But I'm all into the journey. It's fascinating to me. So if I make certain what I want moment to moment, I'm cool at the crossroads. Votes: 2

I feel I'm trying to get this really crap car going, and it just keeps stalling on me. And then other times I feel like my life's a train thundering toward me, and I'm in a car stuck on the crossroads and can't get out. Isn't it great being young! Votes: 2

There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did. Votes: 2

Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point--a great crossroads in our life. From that point we either go more and more toward a slow, lazy, and useless Christian life, or we become more and more on fire, giving our utmost for His highest--our best for His glory. Votes: 2

You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. ~ Votes: 2

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there. Votes: 2

I sit at this really weird crossroads. My job requires me to take in calories. I take care of myself. I eat healthy. I exercise a lot. But then I have to go to events in cocktail dresses and look fancy, and people want to interview me about what I'm wearing, and then I'm compared to people who are wearing size 2 all the time. Votes: 2

At this crucial crossroads of history, we join to call on the world to recognize that violence begets violence; that nuclear proliferation benefits no one; that we can, we will, and we must find other ways to protect ourselves, our nations and our future: for it is not sufficient to have peace in our time, but, instead, we must leave a peaceful world to our children. Votes: 2

I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it. Votes: 1

Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions. Votes: 0

The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place. Votes: 0

Texas is the crossroads of the world. Everything here is big. Votes: 0

I stood at a crossroads and fate came to meet me. Votes: 0

When you feel life at crossroads,you need higher perspective view. Votes: 0

We're at the crossroads, ... where we need to win to stay alive. Votes: 0

To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras be a crossroads. Votes: 0

In our eyes the roads are endless. Two are crossroads of the shadow. Votes: 0

Greece is at a dangerous crossroads. Other countries-Portugal, Ireland, maybe Spain-are coming behind it. Votes: 0

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism. Votes: 0

Mentor Me: ...the crossroads and convergence of where science, metaphysics, religion, and utopian society intersect. Votes: 0

Stay alert. The big moral crossroads in your life may not come labeled as such. Votes: 0

It is our faith in Jesus Christ that sustains us at the crossroads of life's journey. Votes: 0

Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you Votes: 0

Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, What is it that you want from me? Votes: 0

It's been a long time coming but the reality is that this process is at a crossroads. Votes: 0

Being sixty-five ... became a crossroads. We said, we have nothing to lose, so we can raise hell. Votes: 0

Earth is the crossroads of every possible alien. We're the McDonald's next to the highway of the galaxy. Votes: 0

Every day is a crossroads. Every day is a chance to change your life and our world for the better. Votes: 0

I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads Votes: 0

When I turned 30, I knew my life was at a crossroads. It was either over, or I was going to restart. Votes: 0

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future. Votes: 0

We stand at a crossroads. One path leads to despair, the other to destruction. Let's hope we make the right choice. Votes: 0

Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home. Votes: 0

May we muster courage at the crossroads, courage for the conflicts, courage to say, "no," courage to say, "yes," for courage counts. Votes: 0

But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie. Votes: 0

Visions of McDonald's restaurants dotting crossroads all over the country paraded through my brain. I don't believe in saturation. We're thinking and talking worldwide. Votes: 0

...I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me... Votes: 0

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade. Votes: 0

And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful- how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar. Votes: 0

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell. Votes: 0

... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] psychologically capable of turning either way. Votes: 0

Some people we know in our lives come up to a crossroads, and they could go left or right, and then end up in a totally different place. Votes: 0

Indecision is the reluctance or inability to pass a judgment on an issue under consideration. Indecision means you have come to crossroads and you cannot make your mind. Votes: 0

The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain. Votes: 0

Every gathering of Americans-whether a few on the porch of a crossroads store or massed thousands in a great stadium-is the possessor of a potentially immeasurable influence on the future. Votes: 0

I do feel like, now, approaching fifty, I am definitely at a crossroads and having to reevaluate things and look at things. It's time for more change, and that's good. Votes: 0

The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins. Votes: 0

When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads. Votes: 0

Here I am at these crossroads again,wondering what will never become of me.Now and then, I'll take one on the chin.Because I wear my heart upon my sleeve. Votes: 0

Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences. Votes: 0

Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end... and knowing there's so much worth saving. Votes: 0

I believe that the trans movement is at a crossroads. We have achieved an unprecedented level of visibility in the last couple of years. However, that's not the same thing as equality. Votes: 0

When you are having trouble making a decision or are at a crossroads in your life and are confused about which path to take, cry out to God and ask for His guidance. Votes: 0

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands. Votes: 0

Here at the edges, in the cracks and at the crossroads, stepping from shadow to shadow in the river of darkness that runs through the heart of Wink, he feels much more at home. Votes: 0

I got to a crossroads in my life where basically I was asked to choose between staying at home and being with them, or being in a band and doing what I want to do. Votes: 0