The Way Quotes

Dr. King once said, "You cannot legislate goodness, and you cannot pass a law to force someone to respect you. The only way to social justice, in a capitalist country, is through economic parity."

The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

Only in Christ are all things in communion. He is the point of convergence of all hearts and beings and therefore the bridge and the shortest way from each to each.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether.

I grew up riding horses and on the beach and I never really wore makeup and my mom showed that as an example. She wore makeup, just in a beautiful, effortless way.

I'm too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair.

There is only one path, though there are many ways to experience it.

Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way to reach this final state of healing.

I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.

Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Intellectuals are hindered on the way to being, by their narcissism.

The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.

Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves.

Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.

We didn't come all the way up here to compromise for no more than we’d gotten here. We didn't come all this way for no two seats, 'cause all of us is tired.

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe.

Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.

I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization - you can't just swallow it whole.

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to have discussion about what these situations are like.

The simple idea that if you treat people well, the way you would like to be treated, they will do the same.

[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.

The way to accomplish the assignment of truly living is to engage fully, richly, and deeply in the living of your dreams. We are made to dream and to live those dreams.

The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.

Never indulge in people who follow a negative path because they will take you with them on the road of ruin. Show them the way to positivism even if there's a risk of losing their friendship.

Magick, in it's own way, is a science of psychology because it uses the power of the mind to bring forth change in one's life.

Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way.

You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder. I felt proud of the way we beat some teams in tough games.

I'm just somebody who tries to write things that entertain people. And if I can do it in a way that makes them prefer to emulate the good guy than the bad guy, I'm happy.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

It's not the subject that's cliché; it's cliché or not. But in fact, this is the way you're talking about it.

I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.

In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

That turned-up collar. The jacket that zipped all the way down the front into a nice fitted shape. The white denim that made my untanned skin look like a color.

I believe for freedom. I believe that people should express themselves the way they want, except as it does in the way that's not nice, but it is what it is.

blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.

Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.

Never admit the possibility of failure, or speak in a way that infers failure as a possibility.

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

I'm just trying to get a window seat on the way to Hell.

Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.