The Way Quotes
The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?
Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read.
The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.
For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.
She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet - physical pain - was the only way to make her internal pain go away. It was the only way she could control it.
The myth of this world is that the way to transformation is through power, but God choose to enter the world in a weak manner, gentle and tender through the heartbeat of a child.
What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.
She decided she'd rather die in some less memorable way- maybe falling down the stairs, or going peacefully in her sleep at the age eighty, after a nice quiet life with Percy.Yes, that sounded good.
I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective.
I had big shoes to fill, but the way we have been playing has made the transition easy.
When someone comes to you with big dreams, don't be too quick to belittle their ambition and dreams. Inspire and help them in any way you can. Even the beautiful butterfly was once a caterpillar.
I'm working it out, man. I'm working through some stuff, trying to find my way like everyone.
I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc.
Time is valuable, and telework is a viable component to help improve quality of life in many ways.
Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way now imaginable to kill off the human race.
If you look at eggs, you will see that each one is almost round but not quite ... Nature's way of distinguishing eggs from large golf balls.
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.
We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.
Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
"The way of Cain" describes any religious system that attempts to earn God's favor by works and rituals rather than reliance on God's grace.
When you open your mouth to speak, you reveal a great deal. The words you use and the way you speak are like a blueprint of who you are deep inside.
Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future is for you to take control of that future.
If you had seen me back in high school, there's no way you would have ever said I would become an author or teacher because I was a horrible student.
What's wrong with technology is that it's not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart. And so it does blind, ugly things quite by accident and gets hated for that.
The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.
Language follows its own path. It can bridge gulfs of class and geography in the most remarkable ways.
For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.
Sociologists say that going to the movies is a bonding experience. It probably has to do with the way you feet stick to the floor.
What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.
What you have to watch out for are the theories that claim to be infallible. Because the only way their believers can win is to stomp out everyone who disagrees with them.
The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read.
I've tried to have a regular haircut, but it just pops back up again, so this is the way it's going to be.
Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way.
I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.
A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.
