Through Quotes

Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.

People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.

I appreciate what others have done in the past especially for my genre, and my style of singing. And they sure put a footprint - you know, they got the foot in the door, but I'm going to put my foot straight through the door.

I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.

As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.

When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.

My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out.

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.

There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.

What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.

If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.

I didn't know why God had chose me for this ordeal, but I was somehow suited to it and knew that I would see it through to the end.

It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers.