On The Way Quotes

You create your own audience, and your own community of peers, and in some ways you create your own forebears as well.

Every place on earth has a frequency. It's not good or bad, it's just the way it is, and if you can attune yourself to that frequency, then you can find comfort in that.

Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.

The possibility of disaster remains horrific to me. Like when you know everything's about to go wrong in a way that's not controllable or knowable.

There are so many ways to respond to music besides feeling like someone's communicating with you. It gives me a charge.

Let everything that comes your way, help you be new.

Live finding each other in what you haven’t yet found, seeing each other in a way that you haven’t yet seen, reaching within to find the more. In the more you find the more of each other.

Prayer doesn’t work in the way that you think. If you pray for good health and it is genuine, you might be coming into sickness. The essence of good health has to do with a most delicate well-being.

In this there are no options, just response, awareness responding to knowing. All the way in and all the way out. This isn’t of the earth - this is of the everything.

In all of its vulnerability, profound sincerity does, in its relationship to knowledge, find its way.

Let your sexuality move in whichever way it does. Do nothing to guide it or control it. What brings it into balance is you being in your heart in the midst of it.

Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way of personal life and one which provides a moral standard for personal conduct.

The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us do not present themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences.

That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of the reasons I'm not good about boiling down music.

For me, the voice expresses things that there are just no other ways to express.

I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I never hear music the way anyone else does, and I no longer find it surprising.

I can talk about feelings, but I can't talk about why this chord on top of this chord sounds cool to me. It just makes me feel a certain way, and I like it.

Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.

The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.

Remember that a book is many drafts - mine certainly are. It's improvisation. It's as much jazz and the way we talk and the way I heard people preach coming up as it is writing.

I want to give the evidence in a way that is convincing, but I don't want to cheat.

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

There's always an asterisk behind somebody's name who hasn't won the Super Bowl. There shouldn't be, but that's kind of the way history works.

If all of you had voted the other way - there's about 5500 of you here tonight - I would not be the President of the United States.

The most ideal approach to advance is the way of opportunity.

Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the democratic way must be admired by all friends of freedom.

One of the best ways to expand his horizon is through a regular reading program.

While they came from a variety of religious backgrounds and held a wide variety of religious beliefs, each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God.

What we Americans need to do is respect that incredible blessing that we have as a nation and make sure that we are leading in the best ways possible.

Our military is overextended. Nine out of 10 active-duty Army divisions are either in Iraq, going to Iraq or have come back from Iraq. One way or the other, they're wrapped up in it.

If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.

There is a much cheaper way, less complicated way to bring Iraq and Saddam Hussein to its knees: it is simply to send the Bush economic team over there and let them run the country.

At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.

I think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.

American can do better, and help is on the way.

If you can resolve this transition of [Bashar] Assad, that is absolutely possible, but you have to have a clarity for everybody about the way forward.

I know that our country is strongest when we lead the world, when we lead strong alliances. And that's the way Eisenhower and Reagan and Kennedy and others did it.

And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool.

The only way to quieten me is to invite me to a tennis match.

Friends range from acquaintances all the way to our best friends and beloveds. A tremendously powerful energetic love can be created from close friends who are highly aligned.

Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways.

I think the only way we retain credibility with the Arab world is to say, 'When push came to shove, despite the mistakes we made in the past, we are with you in democracy.'

Radio is very popular [in Britain], but it doesn't connect us in the same way. It seems to have this community function.

What I love about the currawongs is the way in which they appear from nowhere and, for a brief period, rule the garden's soundscape, only to disappear as quickly as they arrived.

By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.

Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are... People are different when you can smell them and see them up close.

Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.

There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another good day.