Towards Quotes

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one.

Most of the time, I grill over high heat. I like things to move fast. I like the sound and smell of a very hot fire. I gravitate towards dishes that you can get on and off the grill as quickly as possible. After a while, you'll know without thinking about it how hot the fire is.

We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out.

All labour is directed towards producing some effect.

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.

When I look towards my future, I want to leave a legacy that runs rich.

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in.

I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.

But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.

I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does.

You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it.

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.

I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.