Way Quotes - Page 236

There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

Reality is what you can get away with.

Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.

[The Outsiders] was very competitive, in the best possible way. Full of love, full of companionship and fellowship, pranks and practical jokes and ball-busting.

You're like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.

My way probably wont work for most people but the more I got naked the more comfortable I felt.

Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

The university has become so stultified since the sixties. There is so much you can't do at the university. You can't say this, you can't do that, you can't think this, and so forth. In many ways, I'm free to range as widely as I do intellectually precisely because I'm not at a university. The tiresome Chicanos would be after me all the time. You know: "We saw your piece yesterday, and we didn't like what you said," or, "You didn't sound happy enough," or, "You didn't sound proud enough."

Perhaps knowing one place intimately is to have a way of knowing all places.

The most likely way to kill a tradition is to over-formalize it, which is to carry it on in the same way after everyone has ceased to defer to it. The way to revive it is to show that it has grown out of and is still related to our most cherished values. But this requires radical insight and the stripping away of many things which are mere accretions.

Education is a process by which the individual is developed into something better than he would have been without it. ... The very though seems in a way the height of presumption. For one thing, it involves the premise that some human beings can be better than others.

No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.

In my mind the job of a natural scientist is to bend over backwards to say something which can be demonstrated to be true or at least which is not of such a nature that there's no way to demonstrate that it's false.

Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.

The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.

Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn’t plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.

There is a kind of silver spiderweb that's spun around the world, and the strands of that web are certain loves and certain understandings. And if we follow those, and if we walk those strands, we're going to meet others at the intersections who have been walking the same way across this web. And when we meet, there's a kind of "I know who you are."

It would have more meaning for me to hear what critics have to say if their values and their ways of living were deeper and more serious.

To think and to live missionally means seeing all life as a way to be engaged with the mission of God in the world.

It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.

Any good that comes our way doesn't come to us solely because we have done something good, but because God is good.

You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life.

There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else - but persistent.