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“Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.”

May Virtue Path Integrity Blessing Pure Fame Hundred Lasting Temporary Posterity Crooked Straight Path

Book:Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

Source: Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

“Bodies like the earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest thing to a straight path in a curved space, which is called a geodesic. A geodesic is the shortest (or longest) path between two nearby points.”

Made Two Body Earth Moving Force Space Path Gravity Orbit Straight Path

Book:A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

Source: A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

“A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.”

Inspiration Goal Path Objectives Setting Goals Objectivity Straight Path

Author:Andre Gide

“What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.”

Way Literature Path Crooked Straight Path

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.”

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939

“...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.”

Thinking Mind May Turns Wish My Own Powerful Path Honesty Conviction Sufficient Straight Path

Book:Works and Correspondence: Letters, 1816-1818

Source: Works and Correspondence: Letters, 1816-1818

“The fundamental message of the Wu Tang music is as vast as the ocean in all reality, but it's still a straight path. You can take one lyric and by researching what that lyric is giving out to you, it should give you more than a day's worth of school, maybe three days' worth of school.”

Giving Should Stills Reality School Three Path Ocean Messages Music Is Fundamentals Straight Path

Author:RZA

“The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; theres no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.”

Want Passion Deals Path Perseverance Rejection Dedication Frustrating Movie Business Straight Path

Author:Denise Di Novi

“I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.”

Ifs Fighting Speak Born Path Cutting Failing Devil Let Me Obstacles Remove Sincerity Hypocrite Thorns Speak The Truth Factions Straight Path Quagmire

Author:Martin Luther

“I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or joy or "I told you so." It's nothing. To be on the straight path isn't a bloody thing. It's just ordinary.”

Feels Joy Wonder Path Tears Ordinary Innocent Prisoner Bloody Straight Path Told You So

Author:Diana Vreeland

“I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.”

Men Lost Path Straight Path

Author:Saadi

“Drink lots of water, and nap. I've made some really big messes along the way, whether on the academic side or on the media side. It hasn't been a straight path. But a lot of those mess-ups have led to opportunities, so I guess I'd say be fearless, and keep bottled water with you, so you don't dehydrate.”

Way Made Bigs Opportunity Sides Water Path Media Drink Mess Fearless Academic Naps Straight Path Bottled Water

Author:Melissa Harris-Perry