Towards Quotes

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, like with the Genies and stuff like that, it was so much fun. It's so much fun and it's nice when it comes, but that's not what it's all about.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction.

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people.

Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.

Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.

In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real.

When President Jiang Zemin visited India in 1996, the two sides decided that they would jointly build a constructive partnership of cooperation oriented towards the 21st century.

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved.

It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on.

But I've gravitated more towards the drum set.

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.