Quotes About Toward

the fact that her children were so obviously living their own lives was bittersweet. Their independence was what you hoped for and worked toward, but the reality was you just weren't that critical anymore.

You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.

emotions fly humans toward art

if we strive to re-create reality more to our liking, we will trend not toward freedom and hope but toward disgusting and impious degradations, and there is no depth to which we will not fall even further. But

They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know.

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

You can only run away from a house. Home is something you run toward.

Remember, we do not think ourselves into new ways of living, but we live ourselves into new ways of thinking. Jesus moves toward lifestyle solutions and not academic ones.

Even the strongest toward emotion, lust, is unlikely to make you run, whereas fear can do so in an instant. The toward emotions are more subtle, more easily displaced, and harder to build on, than the away emotions. This also explains why upward spirals, where positive emotions beget more positive emotions, are less common than downward spirals, where negative emotions beget more negative emotions. Human beings walk toward, but run away.

In the beginning was the light and light was with life and the light was life and the earth quickened, and we came out of the ground to yearn forever and never reach the light but to tumble through generations, our skins afire with this lust for the light and we go toward the light or we go toward nothing and we become nothing. That is all.

Those memories press into me like rude, insistent fingers as I walk toward the back door.

He picked his way carefully toward the sex question. Why is it a question? He understood that people need acts of attention from one another, does it really matter which acts?

It was a natural progression for me to find that if acting was what made me most comfortable, the best thing for me to progress toward was television and film.

Would Revolver have become the album toward which every superlative was hurled had it been released under the same conditions that Sgt. Pepper was? Without a doubt.

There was now enormous British ambivalence toward Pierpont.

I was always searching, always seeking the next big thing, because that was the thing that was going to make everything all right again. And while I was working toward it, it gave me something to think about other than that thing I couldn't put my finger on. But it always came back.

The danger of writing a so-called thriller is that in your last 100 pages, all of these really interesting characters you've created are just running away from something or toward something, but they're no longer capable of innovation or discovery.

If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

the West Wing was hurtling toward a strange new reality. A fantasy.

His solitary act was a radical statement of the importance of community. If we desire to be remade in God's image, we will be molded in such a way that we move toward others.

is fifty years now since this Foundation was established – sfifty years in which the members of the Foundation have been ignorant of what it was they were working toward. It was necessary that they be ignorant, but now the necessity is gone. 'The Encyclopedia Foundation, to begin with, is a fraud, and always has been!

The world, more suffering than sinning, turns toward Pope Francis as in a conversation people turn to the person who is making sense of things.

it was a most splendid miraculous time still is only now instead of moving toward time it moves toward us