Way Quotes - Page 707

Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.

Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

When I finally went to school I had to adjust to other girls and learn their fiendish ways. Having learnt them, I turned them on all and sundry.

I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.

I feel despised there, for having so little money; also for once having had so much. I never actually had it, of course. Father had it, and then Richard. But money was imputed to me, the same way crimes are imputed to those who've simply been present at them.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.

My family was big on sharing. I guess it was just the way I was brought up. Or maybe, I read those fairy tales in which one good turn elicits another. But in writing, yes, some older writers were kind to me when I was young; although some others were not.

One good maxim to keep in mind, and I can't remember who said it, "You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way."

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others. The scroll is coming back (Twitter is a scroll.) Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.

Politically, the world economy really depends on consultants. Because it's also, in a way, an outsourcing of responsibility. They can say, "Yeah, they told us to do that," and the consultant says, "Yeah, but I'm just a consultant," and nobody's responsible anymore.

The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper.

War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

The last few weeks we had been playing poorly, but hopefully we can ride this all the way through Halloween.

It's not worth it. We're going all the way to Halloween. You can get him then.

I've seen plenty of ballplayers way better than me, but they didn't have the work ethic. It comes down to how bad you want it.

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing by a way hardly observed it goes happily on its road.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.

People are really angry at Washington. And they have a right to be. It's why I ran in 2010, by the way.

I'm running for president because there's no way we can elect Hillary Clinton to continue the policies.