Top 100 Just The Way Quotes
#1. I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.
Sean Penn
#2. My creative workday starts with strong breakfast tea and a few minutes of journaling, both of which help me get my head in the story. So much of story-building for me involves immersing myself in the character and situation I'll be working on, just the way an actor does when playing a role.
Therese Fowler
#3. It is totally different. But once we went to 12 teams, that's just the way it was going to be. It's just a reality. But I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that some team can win four games in four days and win the whole thing.
Skip Prosser
#4. New York is perfect. Just the way it is. In all its imperfection.
Christy Hall
#5. That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.
Mark Twain
#6. I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
E.L. Doctorow
#7. I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#8. We'd been living at Grandpa's for a little more than a year when Mrs. Crandel died. And the next day Kate Helen Branch had a baby. Uncle Burley said that was just the way things were. They put one in and pull another one out.
Wendell Berry
#9. My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.
Thom Yorke
#10. Be just the way you have always been, with this difference: do not believe any of it, and pay close attention to all of it.
Cheri Huber
#11. In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
La India
#12. Every patient tends to bury the most important story inside some other story, just the way new writers often 'bury the lede.' 'Burying the lede' is an old journalism term for when you only find out the real point about halfway into the article, but it also applies to therapy.
Gina Barreca
#13. It's a really neat and special coincidence, but it's nothing but a coincidence. This wasn't set up to give Matt that honor. It's just the way it worked out. It's a neat extra.
Tony La Russa
#14. You look beautiful and tragic, just the way a heroine should on the eve of battle. Like Joan of Arc in her silver armor.
Melissa De La Cruz
#15. I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before,' he said, nodding determinedly. 'She'll see.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#16. Dating is primarily a numbers game ... People usually go through a lot of people to find good relationships. That's just the way it is.
Henry Cloud
#17. And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went.
J. Courtney Sullivan
#18. It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented.
Nora Raleigh Baskin
#19. There's nothing that everyone likes in the world. People have different opinions. It's just the way of living. I know that there will be differences.
Miyavi
#20. It happened again this afternoon. Just the way it did that other night. We were talking
talking about how to protect her, actually
and then, suddenly, I looked at her and it was as if I'd found an entire universe in her eyes.
Cate Tiernan
#21. In the darkness, the Light illuminates you ... not just the way ...
Garrett McCoy
#22. I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
Billy Joel
#23. The only thing I have going on at a personal level is just the way I knew I was gay and I knew what that meant inside me, but the gender aspect of who I am came later.
Amy Ray
#24. You're just spooked. It's Halloween; we're all kind of spooked. That's just the way it is. - Tory
Matthew Leeth
#25. Her hair is a hot mess around her face, just the way I like it - bed-head always makes me want to fuck. Then again, pretty much everything does.
Karen Marie Moning
#26. Some guy is good at putting these verses together, and some guy is good at singing them. That's just the way it is.
Frank Fairfield
#27. If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.
Kevin Eubanks
#28. I'm still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but that's just the way I am.
Ariel Rechtshaid
#29. Truth is, I'm a bit old school. For me, it would be hard to put on a Lakers jersey. That's just the way it is.
Steve Nash
#31. I don't think Hawk or I are operating on emotional whim. It's just the way we experience things sometimes needs to get translated sort of promptly into a, ah, course of action. So we have tended to bypass the meditative circuit."
"Wow," Hawk said.
Robert B. Parker
#32. The secret to life is trusting yourself and loving who you are, just the way you are.
Anna Torv
#33. And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
Pat Robertson
#34. I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.
Johnny Ramone
#35. I would spend my life on the road logging hundreds of thousands of miles and my story was always the same. . . man comes to town, detonates; man leaves town and drives off into the evening; fade to black. Just the way I like it.
Bruce Springsteen
#36. A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.
Martina Mcbride
#37. It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is.
Sophie Kinsella
#39. America: An ongoing experiment in democracy controlled largely by insanely wealthy people. And that's just the way we like it, thank you very much.
James Napoli
#40. I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn't a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That's just the way I was. I'm not sure. I might have been born with it.
Mark Teixeira
#41. And don't change for a guy, ever," Leah added. "If they're worthy, they'll like you just the way you are.
Sarah Dessen
#42. But perhaps that was just the way of power: no such thing as too much.
N.K. Jemisin
#43. Someday," Joseph said to his granddaughter, "someday something will happen and you will want to go back to the carving. You won't be able to prevent yourself; that's just the way it is. The world always somehow takes us back to the chisel. Something happens and we have to respond.
Jane Urquhart
#44. In tension you cannot perceive; in laxity you cannot perceive. Only if you are intense and relaxed, you perceive everything just the way it is.
Jaggi Vasudev
#45. I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact.
Tom Hanks
#46. Manipulating is just the way to proceed, to convince that what you're doing is important. Everyone is manipulating.
Herve Falciani
#47. One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.
Bryce Courtenay
#48. Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
Ed Bradley
#49. But that's just the way it was surviving in America's public schools. Every day was a struggle. Every day was psychological warfare, and if you didn't stay sharp, the system would grind you into human pencil shavings.
Jonathan LaPoma
#50. I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it ...
Kurt Vonnegut
#51. When the Fair Folk gave you an instruction, you followed it, whether it suited you or not. That was just the way it was.
Juliet Marillier
#52. I don't know how to talk about technology in a positive or negative way because it's just the way the world is to me. It seems like talking about the advantages of breathing through holes in our face instead of holes that lead more directly to the lungs.
Chelsea Martin
#54. We don't realise that we are actually perfect just the way we are. We are born perfect, but spend a lifetime trying to be something we are not, and then feel inadequate for failing. Your only purpose is to BE YOURSELF, otherwise you will deprive the universe of who you came here to be.
Anita Moorjani
#55. The different parts of my career seemed to take part in different rooms, albeit in the same house. It was just the way things were and I didn't actually think much about it at the time.
Richard Rodney Bennett
#56. Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted.
Donna Mills
#57. There are Michael Scott moments, which are character choices, but there are also Steve's reads. Usually the things that I'm the biggest fan of are these weird reads that he does - just the way he's interacting with other people.
Greg Daniels
#58. What's really cool about our family is that we don't hold grudges, and I think that is what's been the key to the success. We get into our little disagreements, and whether we're right or wrong, we'll go and apologize. That's just the way we are.
Selena
#60. The Place would already have started the leisurely, enjoyable process of digesting her into just one more piece of local gore-lore, half ghost story and half morality play, half urban myth and half just the way life goes. It would eat her memory whole, the same way its ground had eaten her body.
Tana French
#61. Some people are just destined to be together. That's just the way it is.
Amy Davis
#62. My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was ... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.
Queen Latifah
#63. Especially with the live, just the way I curve words, it's about expression. It's so emotive, to be able to release these words into a mike. It really emphasizes this insane tingle down my spine whenever I play.
King Krule
#64. It's just the way things are." she shrugged. "It's no one's fault."
"Or everyone's.
Scott Westerfeld
#65. Very sweetly, he always told her he loved her just the way she was. Although, honestly he had no idea. She shuddered to think what she would really look like if she stopped waxing, plucking, highlighting, manicuring, applying make-up and
dressing with care and concentration.
Carmen Reid
#66. I am such a sap when it comes to love! I believe in love at first sight all the way. But that's just the way it happened to me with my relationships. I love the idea of two people looking at each other and electricity flying around them; it's so romantic, and it's a great feeling.
Kim Barnouin
#67. Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.
Jack Nicklaus
#68. I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went.
Lauren Willig
#69. How can you go wrong with playing around on a superhero show? Just the way that they do things and watching them do their thing was amazing to me. Also, superheroes are awesome!
Bex Taylor-Klaus
#70. I love you just the way you are
but you don't see you like I do.
You shouldn't try so hard to be perfect.
Trust me, perfect should try to be you.
Bo Burnham
#71. I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.
Taylor Momsen
#72. We say we long for intimacy with God and others, and yet we structure our lives so that this becomes impossible. One might think we are avoiding intimacy, that maybe we really like our finely managed lives just the way they are.
Mark Galli
#73. If I had an ordinary illness, I'm sure they could fix me. But I've seen demons rip my world to pieces. Nobody believes that, so nobody knows what I'm going through. I'm alone. I always will be. That's my life now. That's just the way it is.
Darren Shan
#74. Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.
Libba Bray
#75. Maybe not," she said as we came to the car. "But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.
Sarah Dessen
#76. Because we follow Christ and are citizens in the kingdom of God, the rationale "that's just the way it is," is not near enough motivation or excuse to keep going with the flow.
Ronnie McBrayer
#77. The difference between the first time I read something and the tenth time I read something is generally pretty profound. Even if the script is the same, just the way that I read it is different.
David Sedaris
#78. Wizards? Do you mean they do things a different way?"
"No, just the way we do,"Merlin replied.With a flick of his finger he lit the soggy heap of kindling that Arthur had gathered ( ... ) A blaze leapt up on the instant. Merlin then opened his hands and produced some food out of thin air.
Deepak Chopra
#79. Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can ... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.
Thierry Henry
#80. I really enjoyed every minute of it. I mean, I've learned so much in the last week, I mean, just the way to play a real, real doubles. It was a great experience for me, and we had a lot of fun.
Daniela Hantuchova
#81. Once you forgive yourself, the self-rejection in your mind is over. Self-acceptance begins, and the self-love will grow so strong that you will finally accept yourself just the way you are. That's the beginning of the free human. Forgiveness is the key.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#82. Every show is unique, some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due. I am the latter.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#83. Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.
Forrest Carter
#84. My wife asked me about that: "What happened to your beard?" I said, "What are you talking about?" She said, "Hey, the right side is shorter than the left." I said, "You gotta be kidding me." So I went in there and looked, and I combed it out and I said, "I don't know, that's just the way it grows."
Si Robertson
#85. I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!
Taiye Selasi
#86. Everyone wants their love story just the way we watch on movies and when little does it happen in reality they say we are being dramatic
D.N. Joshi
#87. You do not need drugs and alcohol to change who you are - You are perfect just the way you are.
Chris Herren
#88. This was just the way I imagined myself around Nancy Grace
available, yet distant.
Chelsea Handler
#89. It's a hard job to get the camera to see it like you see it. Sometimes you have it just the way you want it, and then you look in the camera and you don't have the balance. The main thing is to get the camera to see it the way you see it.
James Van Der Zee
#90. She's sure, absolutely sure, that what she's waiting for will happen, just the way she wants it to; and I'm so uncertain, so fearful my dreams will end up forgotten somewhere, someday, like a piece of string and a paperclip lying in a dish.
Lois Lowry
#91. My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.
Vik Muniz
#92. I'm actually no longer a strict vegan. I don't hang out in the cheese section - I don't even eat cheese. I don't drink milk. But every once in a while I'll have an egg. I'm going to eat eggs that come out of my next-door neighbor's farm, that's just the way it is.
Jason Mraz
#93. We were sitting so close that our hips touched. He smelled nice, like freshly cut grass and sunshine. I wondered if he'd been outside already this morning, or if that's just the way Cal always smelled.
Rachel Hawkins
#94. The good news was that "biology" turned out to be the magic password for working at the Museum of Natural History, just the way "art history" would at the Met or "trust fund" at the MoMA.
Sloane Crosley
#95. I'm a normal working actor - just the way I want it. I have never been the one to want the fame of everything. The thing for me is to inspire people and do something I love.
Tony Revolori
#96. That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.
Mark Twain
#97. My main thing is I'm gonna go out there every night and give it all I got and just try to put on the best show I can. That's just the way I'm programmed and wired.
Luke Bryan
#98. Australia is so entrenched in rock n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#99. There is no technique, there is just the way to do it.
Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?
Frances Mayes
#100. I'm not saying that either Socs or greasers are better; that's just the way things are.
S.E. Hinton
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