Way Quotes - Page 428

This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1) The few plunder the many. (2) Everybody plunders everybody. (3) Nobody plunders anybody.

I've got a good family to support me, so I'm grounded in that way.

It's more fun in a way to do ensemble scenes, where you know your background, you know the scene, but you can't prepare because someone else is going to say something that is going to lead you off

I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.

And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.

I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me.

Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way.

It's always great to have a family member who knows exactly what you're going through in every way, shape, and form, and I'm blessed to have that in my sister.

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

Parents have subtle ways of humbling you, of reminding you of your origins, perhaps by showing up at the moment of your greatest glory and reminding you where you came from and demonstrating that you still have some of it between your toes.

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.

If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity.

It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment.

... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.

And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody chooses to be a dilettante. Many choose cunning and brute force.

The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the only corrective, therefore, of superstition is physical science.

Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined.

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses.