On The Way Quotes

The truth is my development I hope is the same way as everything, which is, I succeed some, I fail some, and I keep slugging away at it. I really enjoy it. It's fun.

It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.

I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.

... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.

Sports are never just sports, we all know that. You're always carrying the flag in some way, shape or form.

This gospel we have received is one of sacrifice, service and self-abnegation from beginning to end. That is what constitutes the straight and narrow way that leads to life eternal.

In a way, we can have a much easier discussion about the future of technology than we can about why a young man kills another man in a war.

Ozone Man, Ozone. He's crazy, way out, far out, man.

Prabhupada's definitely affected the world in an absolute way. What he was giving us was the highest literature, the highest knowledge. I mean there just isn't anything higher.

If God is unlimited, then He can appear in any form, whichever way He likes to appear.

The life of man is a winter way.

The way is an ill neighbour.

There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]

I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.

Hee goes not out of his way, that goes to a good Inne.

Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.

Good land, evill way.

And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.

There’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.

I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

I am more of a visual person than a verbal person. For me, I think, the excitement is the fact that I found a way of telling the story as I want to tell it, in a medium that I could master.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.

Young people don't have a fantasy life anymore, not the way we did. All they've got is Kojak and Dirty Harry. There's all these kids running around wanting to be killer cops.

The object is to try to get the (movie) system to work for you, instead of against you. And the only way you can do it is through success, I'm afraid.

Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.

God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it.

We support the auto-enrolment but we have our doubts about the way the National Pension Scheme is going to be structured.

You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.

Obviously you follow the law of the land, there are many laws I disagree with, but you follow the law. You fight to change the law, you don't break the law. I believe that's the American way.

I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise.

I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the "new math" was the premature introduction of technical terms.

Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.

He wants you to smile and smell sweet and be his lady love. He wants to hear you recite all your pretty little words the way the septa taught you. He wants you to love him... and fear him.

I just thought, given the practicalities of financing an independent movie, you have to have some names. That's just the way it works. You have to have a name that can get you foreign pre-sales.

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

I've seen time and time again the way that the process of trying to say something dignifies and improves a person.

That's the only way that I can figure out how to live, is to say, "Well, I don't know what this adds up to, but I can do the best I can."

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

Monologues, in some ways, are the most scientific descriptions of consciousness and even of gatherings.