Way Quotes

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way.

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Reforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

I grew up pretty peacefully, in that Eastern way. You easily solve problems, believe in harmony. Reduce conflicts, take orders until one day you give orders.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.

I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.

What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.