The Way Quotes

You probably became a musicians because you're into it so stay that way. Don't believe that someone else has the golden ticket for you because they don't.

Happiness was my choice, and though it is hard-won, I am the only person who can stand in the way of it.

Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.

Girls are weird, and I don't mean that offensively. I just can't put it any other way.

I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.

It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is.

You can change the world. Please don't do that, OK? Some of us like the way things are going now.

Pain is the body's way of telling the brain it's in trouble. Similarly, confusion is the brain's way of telling the body, 'All right, buddy, drop that book.

The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how we naturally discriminate.

I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.

The way we see things is the source of the way we think or the way we act

We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.

We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.

If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.

Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.

We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.

I asked for nothing from Theresa [May]. She asked for nothing from me. That's not the way we work.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.

The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.

The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves

There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average.

The moment you understand the whole Universe, is the moment you slightly begin to understand the way God's mind works

We see the universe the way it is because we exist.

Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction.

The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.

It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world.

I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.

He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.

It's a long way back to Eden, Sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff.

If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.

Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.

Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one

Tell him he's wrong. Tell him that even if he's right about waiting, he's right for the wrong reasons, and that makes him all the way wrong.

There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.

A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around.

I think a lot of times dreams are nothing more than a kind of mental or spiritual flatulence. They're a way of relieving pressure.

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think it's going to.

As we get older, our fears, in some way, sharpen and become more personal, because we can no longer - let's say take a book like "It" or maybe "Christine," and say these are make-believe fears.

I’ve always said to people, "I don’t care what you call me as long as the checks don’t bounce and the family gets fed." But I never saw myself that way. I just saw myself as a novelist.

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

Fortitude, determination... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about.

The truth is, I'm a character guy. That's how I see myself. I always see the role as being far more interesting and important than I am... not all actors approach it that way.

I love the stage. It's terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you're about to go out, and you're adrenaline just gets out of control, and that can be really daunting.

All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.

I do play soccer, but it's exhausting in a way.

Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.