Way Quotes - Page 138

There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific method.

Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.

It is simply not consistent with either my character or my confidence in my God-given athletic ability to cheat in any way.

Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These are the properties of music and music has the ability to find us and move us and lift us up in ways that literal meaning can't.

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

I always try to look at conflicts from as many different angles as is humanly possible, and in a lot of ways there is no one answer.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.

Pain is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Death is nature's way of telling you to stop.

To come upon love without seeking it is the only way to find it.

It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

If I wasn't a model I would have liked to be a gardener. It is still a puzzle to me that I ever became a model. I am an extremely private person and I do not have the temperament for fame. I think I was rather ashamed of this trivial way of earning a living.

There is not one right way to ride a wave.

I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way.

The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

Be patient when it seems things are not going right and may never be right again. Accept that what is yours will come to you in the right way at just the right moment.

Indeed, the term body (jism), organs ('arad), extent (mutahayyiz) and their like are all newly-invented terminologies. We have mentioned many a time before that the Salaf and the Imaams have not spoken about such things, neither by way of a negation nor by way of affirmation. Rather, they declared those who spoke about such matters to be innovators and went to great lengths to censure them.

Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.

If you're part of a crew, nobody ever tells you that they're going to kill you, doesn't happen that way. There weren't any arguments or curses like in the movies. See, your murderers come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people who've cared for you all of your life. And they always seem to come at a time that you're at your weakest and most in need of their help.

Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.