The Way Quotes
The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.
You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.
When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way your writing has been used.
Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.
No two people can see the world in the same way. No matter what you’re looking at, no one is seeing it the same way you are.
We know each other in a way that no one else can. We share a history that makes us permanently connected.
When someone rips your heart out, there's nothing you can do to change how you feel about them. You just have to keep feeling that way until it goes away. Until it never does.
Still hiding and afraid to let go. Waiting for you to find me uncover me and show me the way.
Its so weird how connecting with someone in a different setting can bring out this whole other side of them. Like how certain places inspire us to act in ways we normally wouldn't.
And there are a million possibilities. Like the possibility of going separate ways. Together.
It’s interesting how you can know someone for a long time, and then one day you just see them in this whole different way.
And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.
Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.
The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.
The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.
Two Navy SEALs versus one angry seven-month-old," he mused, "The odds could go either way.
No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her.
How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it's only in the limited way that I can manage. But I never get the chance.
If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me... but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?
How many of us give up along the way because we'll never be the expert that so-and-so is?
people's feelings about themselves change when they change the way they handle their money. Once they begin treating their money with respect, their self-respect shoots up as well.
There isn't a part of our lives that money doesn't touch - it affects our relationships, the way we go about our everyday activities, our ability to make dreams reality, everything.
Money doesn't bring courage, I learned. It's the other way around. Once I took that lesson to heart, I began to rebuild my life.
I love the way business works, when there's a crisis or a scandal, there is blood on the floor. Somebody pays, people are held accountable, that's just not politics.
Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!
With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God?
The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles.
Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to freedom
If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.
So long as you have faith in your Guru, nothing will be able to obstruct your way.
Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?
The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint. I was obsessed with the Beatles as a kid.
In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.
when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry.
When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.
You mustn't regret decisions that you make. Because the decisions are made out of your gut in a way and you have to stick with them.
Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.
We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time.
Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction.
I think I came along at an opportune time. I don't know if that would happen anymore, because the whole way of doing business in Hollywood has changed.
You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul.
People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make an action film. It's pretty real.