Way Quotes - Page 358

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.

If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.

The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

Doing classic plays is wonderful. It's a wonderful way of developing style.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

I've worked with collage a lot. And there's this chance thing that happens - you don't always control things. Why did you find this today and not this? But you've got this thing, and you make it work. It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

I think everything that happens in life we're prepared for in ways we really don't really know.

Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested, with excuses aplenty.

Love everybody. If they do you wrong or they brush you the wrong way it's OK, you don't have to hold on to that, you can still love them from afar; you don't have to really deal with them.

I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.

When you're a pilot, and you know all the ways to survive an airplane crash and how low the chances are, you feel safer.

Believe in the integrity and value of the jagged path. We don't always do the right thing on our way to rightness.

That's how we find our way outward and onward. By holding onto beauty hardest. By cradling it like the cure that it is. By making it realer than anything ever was. The rest is just monsters and ghosts.

My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you. She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.

I did once leave one of [my kid] watching something on YouTube, something completely innocuous, and I went out of the room and the algorithm kept playing the next thing and the next thing and somehow worked its way around to showing him the trailer for John Carpenter's The Thing - at which point I walked back in. He wasn't happy.

Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.

The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.

Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set up the universe and the plot properly. It's like a whodunnit where there's no actual way for the reader to identify the perpetrator before the climactic reveal: there's no sense of closure for the reader.

We live charmed lives if we are living in the center of God's will. All the attacks that Satan can hurl against us are not only powerless to harm us, but are turned into blessing on the way.