Way Quotes - Page 81

The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.

The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.

South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the inefficiencies that undermine poor people's opportunities and our refusal to admit that we are part of the problem.

The best way to battle fear is with courage. You have to look at the opposite of fear: Fear is scared of courage.

Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

Perhaps the thought of going to hell doesn't alarm you, because you don't believe in it. That may be your belief, but if hell exists, your lack of belief won't make it go away. Standing on a freeway and saying, "I don't believe in trucks" won't make the 18-wheeler disappear.

If you want those around you to act in a more loving and conscious manner, act in a way that helps them to do so.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!

We're just ordinary people. We don't know which way to go.

Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing it to be something sensuous . . . the viewer's lips slightly wet as the scene plays out. Violence is nothing like that. It is lightning fast, chaotic, and totally intangible.

The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.

Giving people a hand up, not a handout, is the way forward.

No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so.

Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.

We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.

So important to keep the pathway of success clean.

What I love most about Norway is you ladies. Back home I'm used to fat and hairy women journalists.

It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.