On The Way Quotes

I love the feeling of being on the hunt - the feeling that the story is refusing to be solved in some lesser way and is insisting that you see it on its highest terms.

If you want to explore a political idea in the highest possible way, you embody it in the personal, because that's something that no one can deny.

Whether you're eighteen or sixty, in a certain way, whatever you know is valid.

I think each writer has to seek her most energetic prose style. She has to find a way to write so that nobody can deny it.

When you do something that's going to speak to people, it's going to be because you're really allowing all of yourself to the table in an accepting way.

The main thing a childhood in the Church did for me, I think, was set up the universe as a moral system. Once you've seen it that way, it always seems that way.

In a certain way, we're always toggling back and forth between the absolute and the relative, if that makes sense.

What's really baffling to me is the way that the technology has risen up to help us become more materialistic.

If you're a Christian, Jew or Muslim, you're equally an American. That's the great thing about America, is the right to worship the way you see fit.

The only way to protect our people, the only way to secure the peace, the only way to control our destiny is by our leadership -- so the United States of America will continue to lead

There's a way to accomplish the separation of church and state and at the same time accomplish the social objective of having America become a hopeful place and loving place.

Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

The best way to fight evil is to do some good. Let me qualify that—the best way to fight evil at home is to do some good. The best way to fight them abroad is to unleash the military.

We have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil... The best way to break this addiction is through technology.

We increased expenses, particularly in two areas: the military. If I put somebody in harm's way, they're going to get the best, as far as I'm concerned.

If you've got somebody in harm's way, you want the president being -- making advice, not -- be given advice by the military, and not making decisions based upon the latest Gallup poll or focus group.

The only way we can win is if we leave before the job is...done.

It's exciting; I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes.

In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.

The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is coming.

Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about.

I do not think witchcraft is a religion, and I do not think it is in any way appropriate for the US military to promote it.

As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way.

We'll continue to speak out in a respectful way; never challenging somebody's love for America when you criticize their strategies or their point of view.

I believe that we're in an ideological struggle; I believe the only way to marginalize those who murder the innocent, to achieve our ideological objectives, is to spread democracy and freedom.

I walked away from Kyoto because it would damage America's economy, you bet. It would have destroyed our economy. It was a lousy deal for the American economy. I felt there was a better way.

Those who heralded the decision not to give law enforcement the tools necessary to protect the American people just simply don't see the world the way we do.

Each of us will figure out our own way.

I can only give my life in a way that makes me comfortable.

I feel a special kinship with our military personnel, veterans, and their families. After all, two of my decisions sent them into harm's way.

I worry about protectionists, which is another way of saying less competition, less trade around the world. And I view those as twins of negativity.

Some people are going to like the decisions I made, some people are not going to like the decisions that I made. That's just the way it is.

If someone came to me and said, "Your strategy in your post-presidency is brilliant," as if I had figured out a way to make me look better, to me, that analysis is amusing.

Bill Clinton and I are friends; we see each other on the speaking circuit. He likes to be visible. I don't. And I draw no judgment either way.

If I look back to when I was 20 and somebody said you'd be president, I would have said no way.

[My father] taught me (at least he showed me) a dignified way to be a former president is that once you're off the stage, you're off the stage.

We had a shared experience. That makes a good marriage better. In many ways our marriage is great because she has made it great.

In my judgment, the only way to deal with terrorists is to stay on the offensive, is to find them and bring them to justice before they hurt us again.

I decided what I wanted to do, not to make me look good, but to make me feel comfortable. Other presidents do it other ways.

I believe strongly that to whom much is given, much is required - we are a blessed nation - and that the United States could affect suffering in a positive way.

What I really think is going to happen over time is technology is going to change the way we live for the good for the environment.

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.

Smaller societies must prepare the way for greater.

The whole thing about elections in Liberia - it's not about the way you take care of people, it's not about the heart, it's about education, according to the perception of some people.

The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I might add, that was shared by St. John Paul II.

[Pope] Francis communicates the pastoral embrace of the Church, the breadth and inclusiveness of Catholicism symbolized by the Bernini colonnade around St. Peter's Square, in a powerful way.

The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of government in allocating wealth and opportunity.

The only way forward in life is innovation.

Innovation keeps me ahead of my competition. It means that my foes must adapt to me, not the other way around.

I have not worked at all... Nothing seems worth putting down - I seem to have nothing to say - it appalls me but that is the way it is.