it's a long road that has no turning

Proverb

it's a long road that has no turning

1. Progress through life is characterized by change.
   • It is a long road that has no turning ; and the road the Labour Government is travelling will have a turning, too. Like every new Government, it is making changes; but the present Administration is making a welter of it.1936, The Hon. Mr. Hamilton, New Zealand. Parliamentary Debates. First Session, Twenty-Fifth Parliament., Legislative Council and House of Representatives, Vol. 245
   • The next two decades were a political education for Taft as he moved from civil governor of the Philippine Islands to Secretary of War, President of the United States, Kent Professor at Yale and co-chairman of the National War Labor Board. It is a long road that has no turning though.1998, David Henry Burton, Taft, Holmes, and the 1920s Court: An Appraisal, →ISBN, page 67
2. The current situation is bound to change eventually.
   • He was of a wild and restless disposition in those days, and his acquaintances were wont to call him by the name of Jack the Rambler. But it is a long road that has no turning,—he had now been many years at sea,—was the captain of a free trader, and as remarkable for his steadiness and worldly...1834, John Mackay Wilson, Wilson’s Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland
   • He never has had any rights. Whenever anyone wanted anything the stockman was using he simply took it, and the Federal Government stood behind him to back him up. But it is a long road that has no turning, and it is a long dog that has no tail. The stockman's day has arrived if he only has the...1926, W. R. Barber, National Forests and the Public Domain, Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, United States Senate, Sixty-Ninth Congress, First Session...