Ways Quotes - page 3

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. (Jack Kerouac)
In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world. View quote
Margaret Mead
Seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. View quote
Marvin Minsky
I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways. View quote
Lucille Ball
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. View quote
Alice Walker
There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones. View quote
Kingsley Amis
That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive log past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. View quote
Edith Wharton
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can. View quote
Philip Zimbardo
There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others. (Jean de La Bruyère)
India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all. View quote
Will Durant
There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it. View quote
W. C. Fields
India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed. View quote
Bruno Latour
Five coordinating mechanisms seem to explain the fundamental ways in which organizations coordinate their work: mutual adjustment, direct supervision, standardization of work processes, standardization of work outputs, and standardization of worker skills. View quote
Henry Mintzberg
Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to. View quote
Penn Jillette
Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness. View quote
Brandon Boyd
She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. View quote
William Wordsworth
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. View quote
Scott Adams
I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing. (Marilyn Monroe)
There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead. View quote
Nicole Krauss
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals the technique of the marketplace. View quote
Milton Friedman
If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways; I keep, and pass, and turn again. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss