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Quotes About Ways

The Navajos were another matter. Theirs was a sprawling nation, wealthy in stock, obdurate in its ways, open to change but only on its terms.
~ Hampton Sides
On the reservation, the agents tried to induce the Sioux to accept the American economy and adopt white ways. Each left to act as he thought best, the agents
~ Heather Cox Richardson
Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.
~ J. K. Rowling
In times of crisis, different people react in different ways. Some might try to escape. Others might attempt to batten down the hatches and ride out the storm in a safe haven.
~ Cullen Bunn
Alchemy should have no part in a Je'daii's experience. It is a dark force, arcane and dangerous. It has the power to upset balance. There are other ways.
~ Tim Lebbon
Sin affects us in six basic ways.
~ Timothy S. Lane
It is a rotten world in many ways. In too many ways. But the world isn't only rotten, even if it's actively rotting right this very instant. Yes, I am quite certain there are still some perfectly good spots, some terrific people, some things utterly unrotted. They're out there, I know it.
~ Todd Hasak-Lowy
In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as a trifle yet.
~ Wilkie Collins
I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He dont take some curious ways to show it, seems like.
~ William Faulkner
I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He dont take some curious ways to show it, seems like. But
~ William Faulkner
But not in this world: things wore out, and you lost them in a thousand ways, preposterous and unconnected with any notion of devotion, martyrdom, sacrifice
~ William Gaddis
both of them real "street angels," as they say in Vienna, delightful outside the house, unbearable in many ways at home.
~ Heimito Von Doderer
It was against this perceived threat to older ways of being and thinking that a fear-ridden patrician and also a populist crusade conservatism "rose" behind the coup of 17–18 July 1936.
~ Helen Graham
God cannot always give us a satisfactory answer, because our finite minds cannot grasp the thoughts of the infinite. His thoughts are high above our thoughts, and His ways above our ways (see Isaiah 55:9), but we can trust God, always! "In all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose" (Romans 8:28).
~ Henrietta C. Mears
For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.
~ Henry Norris Russell
REALITY 4: GOD SPEAKS BY THE HOLY SPIRIT THROUGH THE BIBLE, PRAYER, CIRCUMSTANCES, AND THE CHURCH TO REVEAL HIMSELF, HIS PURPOSES, AND HIS WAYS.
~ Henry T. Blackaby
find more honest ways—both intellectually and emotionally—to talk about such magnificent intangibles as God, infinity, and consciousness.
~ Lesley Hazleton
Dealing with crime using archaic methods has become impossible. So, it's imperative that we change the ways to counter them.
~ Nana Patekar
From all that experience, Icelanders took away the conclusion: This is not a country in which we can enjoy the luxury of experimenting. We live in a fragile land; we know that our ways will allow at least some of us to survive; don't ask us to change.
~ Jared Diamond
Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
~ Dan Rather
There are actors I have very strong chemical responses to, and I strive always to figure out ways to work with them and get them to sing my stuff.
~ Jason Robert Brown
I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way that's very cold and has such an opposite effect.
~ Jaron Lanier