That Is The Way! Quotes

a hymn then not to birds but to words which themselves feel like feather and wing and light, as if it were on the delicacy of such sweet syllables that flocks take flight.

Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about

English is not merely a language anymore

People aren't born sad

I was so happy that my mother, father, and two brothers had somehow found one another. Perhaps my mother and father have gotten back together, I thought.

Would you believe in a story without the heroes? There are stories without heroes.

I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful.

The intolerant "true believer" is a menace to any field, yet I suspect each one of us finds traces of that person in ourself.

Disequilibrium is often instigated by the will to power, a sleepless drive in the human personality to control others, to force them to do what one wants, or not to do what one opposes.

This is not an issue of geography. He IS of two worlds wherever he goes.

The road itself tells us far more than signs do.

One age misunderstands another

I know you miss me but what do you do about that?

Some express, some write and some just feel it.

I don't love you, you know. I'm merely crazy about you.

You make me come alive- too alive. It's breathless, like a disaster. Ravishing, like crossing over into the desert and losing your bearings. Nothing's the same again.

It may come as an extraordinary shock to you but you're the only woman who has ever succeeded in getting under my skin. It could be because you're a raving lunatic.

The truly unsettling thing about being a woman was needing a man to realise one's full potential

She was so shattered about what kind of man he was -- brutal, tender, passionate. There was little doubt he had some mental disorder.

If you ever look sideways at another man or attempt to refuse me I shall beat you. Got it?

Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.

To determine not to think of it was but to think of it still, to suffer from it still.

Sometimes I closed my eyes hard to avoid thinking, but the eye of the mind refused to be closed and continued to plague me with images.

The scarcity of time is the reason we have to concentrate on one thing at a time.

I love fake people provided they are mannequins.

You don't realize it and that is why you hate who you are. You are living as someone else, so you unknowingly destroy that image everyday.

If I had a wish, I would turn you to a pair of shoes to keep you under my feet and you get an opportunity to be under the bed too.

Clouds shed the agony of the sky and rain concludes it by covering us in filth. What do you think about the puddles of mud and traffic jams? I so hate rain.

It is unbelievable the amount of hate the human body can sustain before it begins to break.

...the standard for moral behaviour must be part of God's nature. He did not create morality, he is morality.

We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad

Maybe this was now normal for Olivier. Maybe every now and then he simply wept. Not in pain or sadness. The tears were just overwhelming memories, rendered into water, seeping out.

For me, there is a strange beauty in remembering.

Quite half of the human race was in tears.

Her [Odette's] eyes were beautiful, but so large they seemed to droop beneath their own weight, strained the rest of her face and always made her appear unwell or in a bad mood.

When you open yourself up to people, you show them where to put the knife in.

The deception of others is almost always rooted in the deception of ourselves.

True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned.

There is no question that engagement requires sacrifice, but that's what we signed up for when we decided to become parents.

I can overlook the lie

It is worth remembering that at some point in the very distant past, no human had ever drank milk from a cow.

The barbeque is the root of all civilization

They were on their way to Canaan

Your better life is as close and as easy as making the choice to pick up your Bible each day, open it up, and let God speak to you.

Scripture offers the unique access to the story of redemption and then, in turn, funds tradition, reason and experience, as God's Word is remembered, experienced, and thought about.

Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

I don't own you, you just belong to me.

I am myself when I get up, I am myself throughout the day and I am myself when I go back to sleep, you probably might have met someone else when I was asleep and claimed it to be changed me.

we are affirming our trust that creation means well within us all, and that whatever painful growth and change may lie ahead, it is leading us to Life, not destruction

It often takes a period of time before what God has done in the spiritual world manifests in the physical world.