On My Way Quotes

When we give way to joy, we do not feel that we have lost control, but gained freedom.

All that matters is that you find a way to put the puck in the net. It doesn't matter how. I learned that from Mario.

You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.

President Bush and Bill Clinton both agree that cloning is morally wrong. Clinton said that he thinks humans should be made the old-fashioned way - liquored up in a cheap hotel room.

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

To come upon love without seeking it is the only way to find it.

My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally.

Pain is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Death is nature's way of telling you to stop.

There is no way to greatness. Greatness is the way.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.

A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit quietly beside it when you don't feel like speaking.

Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.

Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail.

There's two ways of working in Washington, ... One is to go along and get along. The other is to stand up for what you believe in.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.

I've done festivals in the past where I'd be a guest, it was like, Wow, maybe someday I could play Town Hall - but that'll be a long way off. So it's very exciting.

Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.

The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

I was getting ready way too late and the ball was beating me to the strike zone.?

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power.

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

One way of celebrating the Solstice is to consider it a sacred time of reflection, release, restoration, and renewal.

Nature's arena has a way of humbling and energizing us.

I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For another try. Another trip through. One life for another.

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.

The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.

Going with intuition a lot of times is very lonely. You're going on hunches - a little voice in here says, "Go this way." And your mind is saying, "You're crazy."

Well,' said Mrs Smiling, 'it sounds an appalling place, but in a different way from all the others. I mean, it does sound interesting and appalling, while the others just sound appalling.

Play slow and perfect - that’s the way to becoming a virtuoso.

I can’t expect God’s blessing on my work unless I do it God’s way.

Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.

... if you take a risk, two things will happen. People will laugh at you. Or you'll be way ahead of everybody else. And if that's what you're in it for, then you gotta take that risk.

The same fire that cooks a meal for us may burn a child, and it is no fault of the fire if it does so; the difference lies in the way in which it is used.

I've become more like water, I'm more relaxed and I'll say, "Okay, let's just completely change it and do it that way."

While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.

In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.

Do not fear to tell Jesus that you love Him even without feeling it. That is the way to force Jesus to help you, to carry you like a little child too feeble to walk.

There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.

Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.

I sometimes compare my brainstorming on paper to the drilling of oil wells. The only way to strike oil is to drill a lot of wells.

In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything.

I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely.