Toward Quotes

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

I don't see any move toward international pressure to stabilize the situation.

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program.

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends toward the luxury market.

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.