The Way Quotes

I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work is meant to get people out of that.

The neuro-physiological organization which we call instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way, particularly apparent when its function goes wrong.

When shadows fall and the path you walk grows dark, may the smile of God light your way.

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch.

Sometimes we push ourselves. We take a workout and we use it as a way to crack open our shell, let the pain rush in and push out the stagnant wounds of the heart. Sometimes a workout sets you free.

Things that happen along the way determine the final result. I think the pain and suffering I went through in the past... lead me here today.

Outwork the bullshit. That means nothing can rattle you when your conditions are set. And the way you set those conditions is by working damn hard.

Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.

The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins.

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

What if God’s 'NO,’ is really a gift? His way to protect us from what we cannot see, provide something better than we can imagine, or be part of the process of growing us closer to Him.

The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.

The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.

The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey about our dangerously disembodied way of life.

One of the most beautiful ways you can give is giving of yourself and your time.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.

Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.

The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my needs and feelings, I first need to empathize.

You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'

The direction in which we are moving is more important than where we are at the moment. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.

I did nothing but work. I made work my hobby. I was lucky that way.

Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way.

Traveling by bus, we see many things on the way and just let them pass by. Watch the thoughts of your minds in the same way.

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.

Jesus gives us hope because He keeps us company, has a vision and knows the way we should go.

You know people just assume, 'Well, all my life I'll be a worrier.' That doesn't have to be true. There's a way to drink from God's presence so much that worry begins to dissipate.

To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.

Of all the many ways of organising banking, the worst is the one we have today.

We get used to things, and we like reading the way we're used to reading.

Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

Songs will always become a story in some way. I think it's my strongpoint as a writer musically. I don't shy away from it. It's not really an effort. It's how I write songs.

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.

Second is the way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make his living. The way of the merchant is always to live by taking profit.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.

I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.

The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.

People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it.

Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

A little bit of attention can go a long way.

Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature

To commune daily with God in deep meditation, and to carry His love and guidance with you into all your dutiful activities, is the way that leads to permanent peace and happiness.

I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages more palatable.

I could spit dust I'm so mad. He wants to put violins on my new session. I'll die before I'll go all the way pop.

I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.