Toward Quotes

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.

Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?

It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.

I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.

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.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

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.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.

Sometimes, in certain stories, I think we know at the outset essentially what the tone is going to be, or it becomes important that we're groping toward some kind of story with a certain kind of tone that we both get somehow. But I don't think how that's combined with other elements is ever in any way overtly discussed.

We are moving toward a global economy. One way of approaching that is to pull the covers over your head. Another is to say: It may be more complicated - but that's the world I am going to live in, I might as well be good at it.

A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.

I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.

A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq.

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to.

I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

My feeling toward the animal is that he is our younger brother, and that we are our brother's keeper.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.