Best 18854 quotes in «way quotes» category

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

The problem I've always discovered in my own work when this kind of thing happens when you hit the wall is there's almost always a reason. You've almost always made a mistake in the initial conception of the project. You misapprehended something or you thought something would work and now you're three quarters on the way through and you see that it doesn't work.

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.

The problem is not unique; the challenge is not unique to South Africa. Other African countries have faced it. But in our case, we have got to solve the problem. You have got an institutional traditional leadership, which functions in a particular way, in for instance, your communal areas.

The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have.

The problem is that in America is that the nation state has been so weak when it comes to the history of big markets the history of big business in a way so we have a very weak welfare state compared to European nation states.

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

The problem with fault-findingIs that he who finds fault with othersIs in no way a happy person Even after he has successfully Accomplished his task.

The problem with the way we discuss gender is that it tends to be "Let's sympathize with women" or "Let's sympathize with men.

The problem with chasing after happiness was that it wasn't a destination you could reach. It was something that happened along the way.

The problem with a Separation Theology is that it produces a Separation Cosmology, a way of looking at all of life that says that everything is separate from everything else.

The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.

The problem with Matisse is that I can't ever figure out when he's done a good painting or a bad painting because I don't know how to analyse him. I just know that I like the way he put it on and I like his airs and forms.

The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations.

The progress of the Way seems retreating.

The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality.

The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us.

The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

The product Disney created actually changed a life, and that was significant to them. They didn't stand in my way at all.

The promise of the Internet has always been that it was gonna be this unprecedentedly potent instrument of liberation and democratization. It would let you explore things and meet people who you wouldn't otherwise get to know, in completely free and unconstrained ways.

The promise of the Internet-as-Alexandria is more than the rolling plenitude of information. It's the ability of individuals to choreograph that information in idiosyncratic ways, the hope that individuals might feel invited by the gravitational pull of a broad and open commons to 'rip, mix, and burn' - to curate.

The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.

The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the issue was the way of salvation.

The proper way to understand any social system was to view it from above.

The proper way to make policy changes is for you to convince your fellow citizens that there is a better policy outcome than the current one. And then in state legislatures, for those state legislatures to vote that change.

The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.

The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.

The public official must pick his way nicely, must learn to placate though not to yield too much, to have the art of honeyed words but not to seem neutral, and above all to keep constantly audible, visible, likable, even kissable.

The purest form of prayer we can engage in is to feel peace: the kind of peace that comes when we surrender totally to what is, as is—in the knowledge and comfort that Spirit has it all handled and that it will all work out for the best if we just get ourselves out of the way.

The purpose of apology is to extend ourselves in such a way that relationships become deeper, and life becomes richer and more human in the process.

The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.

The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.

The purpose of law is to prevent the strong always having their way.

The pyramids are one of those things that live up to the hype. They're elemental in ways that are hard to describe.

The question isn't so much "Are you parenting the right way?" as it is: "Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.

The question remains, as it will always remain, one of ultimate authority.  Who are you going to follow in your life?  Who will command your allegiance?  Christ...or culture?  You really can't have it both ways.

The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

The question is how do you do it [more consumer protection] so that it actually works that way? And that takes analysis, and sometimes collaboration between government and business, to understand how that works.

The question of meaning goes all the way down: if human life as a whole is meaningless, so is everything that occurs or belongs within it. Since that's not a thought it is easy to live with, there is good reason to search for life's meaning.

The question rather is how we should do science and theology in light of the impending collapse of Enlightenment rationalism and scientific naturalism. These ideologies are on the way out. They are on the way out.

The quickest and easiest way to screw up your life is to take on too much debt.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.

The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

The quickest way to stop noticing something may be to buy it, just as the quickest way to stop appreciating a person may be to marry them.