Way Quotes - Page 202

Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.

Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.

Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.

English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.

It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.

I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.

Don't worry, I won't bite. At least not in the way you're afraid of.

And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.

All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.

We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.--PERFORMANCE

When you do not treat yourself the way you want others to treat you, you can never change the way things are.

If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living.

For me, I haven't succeeded in any way whatsoever.

How do you design the product in a way so that it sells itself?.

The presence of Christ brings us his power and ability to use our limited resources in limitless ways.

For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life.

External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.

The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.

It felt wrong for me to stay totally connected to that very strict way of approaching the heritage - what it can be, what it cannot be. That was also the period where I really thought, "No, let's open it up."

It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

Everything in this world will pass away. In eternity only Love will remain.

I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.

If we live in the here and now, each moment is a surprise, every instant a new wonder. But it often fails to work this way. Onto the present we superimpose our expectations and opinions, based on the past or future. We meet someone, and we already anticipate what he/she will be like and what they will say.