Way Quotes - Page 374

Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior experiences of the divine, you are transformed in some degree.

Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.

Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at other times. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.

O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.

So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')

I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.

Lighting is an essential way to change the mood of a room, especially if you can use dimmers.

Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.

I love to hear a cool ambient sound at runway shows. It creates a good energy.

The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.

Ultimately you are doing what you do for one of two reasons: to serve oneself or to serve God. There is enough time in every day to do God's work...in God's way.

It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.

In spite of the extraordinary outpouring of totally and partially new products and new ways of doing things that we are witnessing today, by far the greatest flow of newness is not innovation at all. Rather, it is imitation.

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance to the expanding heteronomy, even if only as thought's powerless attempt to remain its own master and to convict of untruth, by their own criteria, both a fabricated mythology and a conniving, resigned acquiescence.

When it comes to emotions, we all feel pain in the same way, everyone, whether you're from Istanbul or Beijing.

The only way Marc Bircham will be going to Tottenham is if he buys a f****** season ticket.

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!

We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.