Way Quotes - Page 274

Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.

I read Holes in 10th grade, and I havent read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK, but the book was way better.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

We cannot change our rulers, but we can change the way they rule us.

About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.

It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.

Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.

I believe in God. I believe in a higher power. And I do believe that God works in mysterious ways.

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

I wouldn't mind having another shot at doing comedy, but I'm not sure that's the way I'd want to go.

He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was, he was like that. His cynicism, a veteran's cynicism, was a thing that disturbed him all the time.

Anarchism is surprisingly effective in solving actual problems largely because anarchists have thought a lot about solving actual problems on a micro level in ways that other political ideologies don't really feel they have to until after they seize state power.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back.

I really work for racial reconciliation in many ways. And you can judge me by my writings.

There's nobody between you and the print. Nobody. It's you and the subject and the final print. And if you get it published that way, you've said it.

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

Denmark (also called Norway) is best known as the original home of the prune Danish as well as the Vikings, who wore hats with horns sticking out of them, and for a very good reason: they were insane.

Savant syndrome is not a disorder in the same way as autism is a disorder or dementia is a disorder. Savant syndrome are some conditions that are superimposed and grafted on to some underlying disability. So savant syndrome is not a disease or disorder in and of itself. It is a collection of characteristics, or symptoms, or behaviors that have grafted on to the underlying disability.

Sailing really forces you to be present and in the moment. You kind of forget about the bullshit of life. Your thoughts go away because you're focused on making sure everything's working. I like being in that place.

I hope somewhere along the way, I've inspired someone to do something. ... And I hope they say that I was nice and polite.

Cheaters never prosper, unless they get away with it.

You never want to be forced to do something. But the world around you starts to influence you in ways you never expected.

It’s not a question of whether you will hurt, or of how much you will hurt; it’s a question of what you will do, and how well you will do it, while pain has her wanton way with you.