Way Quotes - Page 649

In 1619, when there are reports about the first blacks brought to British North America, they are referred to as N-I-G-G-U-H-S. Well, it doesn't seem that that was meant in a derogatory way. It seems merely descriptive.

One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half the time isn't, the way it ought to be in the novel.

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.

In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating.

We didn't create ISIS - ISIS created themselves, but we will stop them, and one of the ways we stop them is by not funding them, and not arming them.

The one way, possibly, out of this is for [Bashar] Assad to abdicate and plead, perhaps to Russia or somewhere else. Would save another wave of civilian casualties if we could get him to abdicate.

We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.

I worry that the Senate is working to consider a series of little-noticed provisions in comprehensive immigration reform that may provide a pathway to a national ID card for all individuals present in the United States - citizens and noncitizens.

The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.

One way to avoid what has already been done is to be true to yourself.

Often we need to use policy to level the playing field, or to be sure that a technology is managed in a responsible way.

I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.

You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is.

My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

Everything good is on the highway.

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.

Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.