“Accept where I am going or I will not lead you.”
Addressing the Transvaal NP Congress on 18 September 1979, as cited by Andrew Donaldson, Sunday Times, November 5, 2006
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Interview on her role in the Broadway play "Two for the Seesaw". The New York Times (1958).
“I do not know where I am going. But I am quite weary enough of where I’ve been.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 9 (p. 157)
“I'm content where I am. I know I am going to be a Cowboy for life.”
Tom Orsborn (July 27, 2008) "Owens one happy camper", San Antonio Express-News, p. 01C.
As quoted in "Life of Eugene V. Debs" by Stephen Marion Reynolds, in Debs : His Life, Writings and Speeches (1908) edited by Bruce Rogers and Stephen Marion Reynolds, p. 71
Context: I am not a Labor Leader; I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out. You must use your heads as well as your hands, and get yourself out of your present condition; as it is now the capitalists use your heads and your hands.
“I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.”
Paris Review interview (1969)
Context: When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said — it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions.
I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.
Nothing’s Sacred (2005)
“Why should knowledge of where I came from tell me where I am going to?”
'Moving with the Times', The Observer, 22 October 1961