Way Quotes - Page 275

Realism is important in foreign policy. You have to be realistic about what you can achieve, and about the pitfalls, and problems along the way, of which there are plenty. Nothing is easy. It's always rough.

A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely.

Keep moving forward, even one or two steps, in your own way. Those who live out their lives to the fullest, unperturbed by the noisy clamor around them, are the true winners.

I know that people have different ways to see me but I'm used to it.

I never took drug to escape. I know some people take drugs to escape, but I took drugs because I was an experimenter. And an artist. And I was always trying to go to the other side of that veil and get information, like all writers have done through the millennia. To get some insights on how the whole thing works, if there's any way to know how it works, and write about it.

I remember John walking on and starting to play, and my mouth sort of dropped open in disbelief at the power of the playing coming across the stage - and the technique! I've never, ever seen another drummer play quite the way he did.

Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?

Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.

If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

I feel so lucky that I live in a society that lets women be. I think that's the one of the biggest fights to keep having, is to fight for women to have the right to live their life the way they want to live it.

I have no agenda - just to be loved. Somebody said to me, 'Whenever somebody says your name, a smile comes to their face.' That's a great accolade. I strive to keep it that way.

I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why I'm sort of automatically thrown to be a certain way.

You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.

No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine

Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.

High heels empower women in a way.

Between killing and dying there's a third way: live

I married way out of my pay grade. I have no idea how that happened.

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire.