Toward Quotes

It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

There are still deep-seated structural problems that threaten the economic balance in the world: Between the United States and China, for example, but also within Europe. We have taken a few steps toward taming the financial markets, but we haven't come nearly far enough to rule out a repetition of the crisis.

I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons.

The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank.

Goals seem impossible only when you are not heading toward them.

It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel.

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people.

There's a great public disinclination toward politicians.

This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises.