Top 100 The Only Way Quotes
#1. The rule that science is the only way to know something is itself unscientific; it cannot be tested. So the claim
that only science can demonstrate truth actually flunks its own test, since it cannot validate itself!
Gary R. Habermas
#2. I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.
Robert Shapiro
#3. I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#4. The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.
John Dos Passos
#5. I love mistakes because it's the only way you learn.
Jane Fonda
#6. The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
Byron Katie
#7. The only way for God to take over the world is to live in human flesh by His spirit
Sunday Adelaja
#8. The only way not to be afraid is to join with other people who are also afraid.
Lynne Stewart
#9. I now know pain
is part of any journey-
that this is the opposite
of grief, but grief
the only way I know
to describe waiting
and waiting without
knowing, hoping one day
joy will arrive.
Kevin Young
#10. The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.
Gary Zukav
#11. Since all taxpayers are being forced to fund the religion of evolution in schools and it is evolution that must be proven to be the only way our universe came into being like the textbooks say, what happens if one jury member will not vote with the rest?
Kent Hovind
#12. I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.
Mick Jagger
#13. Could be a magic country like Narnia, and the only way you can get in is by swinging across on this enchanted rope.
Katherine Paterson
#14. In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and it's just dumb. I think the only way of maintaining some of that mystique is by not giving away too much about yourself. It has served me well so far. I never want to feel up for grabs.
Miranda Richardson
#16. That didn't surprise me; any man with a grain of sense knows that marriage is the only way, these days, to acquire a full-time maid who works twenty-five hours a day. with no time off and no pay except room and board.
Elizabeth Peters
#17. The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.
Gabriel Byrne
#19. I want to try and be as involved in the art of filmmaking as possible. I feel that the only way to really do that is to take on as many roles as possible, whether it be as an actor, an editor, a director, a cinematographer.
Joe Swanberg
#20. For men born and educated like our citizens, the only way, in my opinion, of arriving at a right conclusion about the possession and use of women and children is to follow the path on which we originally started, when we said that the men were to be the guardians and watchdogs of the herd. True.
Plato
#21. Should you be a teenager blessed with uncommon good looks, document this state of affairs by the taking of photographs. It is the only way anyone will ever believe you in years to come.
Fran Lebowitz
#22. The only way that America can protect its prosperity and political stability will be to depopulate the Third World? Should we be surprised that the AIDS virus showed up about 1975? Do you understand what the term "depopulate" means?
Chuck Palahniuk
#23. You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.
Jodi Picoult
#24. When we honestly take stock of our ability, we are then granted the opportunity to improve our circumstance. Accessing where you stand is the only way to stand somewhere else.
Chris Matakas
#25. The only way you can raise the debt ceiling is to change the trajectory of spending - that's my personal preference. But I want the Ways and Means Committee to offer up a solution.
Jason Chaffetz
#26. The only way we can guarantee our continued survival on earth is to recognise the importance of other non human life forms and stop pretending we're on top of some pyramid of domination over other beings.
Rod Coronado
#27. I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I've given you, not my sacrifice or my pity, but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way I can want you to love me.
Ayn Rand
#29. Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.
Dick Gregory
#30. No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus.
John C. Maxwell
#31. The only way I see an out is for you to take full responsibility.
Johnny Hunt
#32. The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.
Jill Soloway
#33. The only way I can cope with me and my environment is to have this kind of wall around me. I'm exhausting myself.
Manolo Blahnik
#34. It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.
David Stockman
#36. The only way to be who you want to be is by being what you haven't yet been.
Sally Edwards
#37. But why all these questions?
Because I'm in love and I'm afraid of suffering.
Don't be afraid, the only way to avoid that suffering would be to refuse to love.
Paulo Coelho
#38. The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
E.W. Howe
#39. You have to forget about people when you can't have them anymore. That's the only way to be okay.
John Corey Whaley
#40. The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.
Cofer Black
#41. I wanted my anger to be valid, and the only way to do that is to be fairly attractive.
Courtney Love
#42. The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
Bette Davis
#43. The only way to teach focus is to present the eye with opportunities for steady perception - best supplied by the contemplation of art. Looking at art requires stillness and receptivity, which realign our senses and produce a magical tranquillity.
Camille Paglia
#44. Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.
Jim Sensenbrenner
#45. You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.
Henry Louis Gates
#46. He was much older and had the physique of someone who spent all his time behind a computer. The only way he'd have a six-pack was if he'd added it on Photoshop.
Laurie London
#47. It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#48. I've come to believe that total nakedness, that is absolute transparency, that is utter and unfettered and profound visibility, is the only way that we can truly love. Anything less, is self-defense.
Neale Donald Walsch
#49. I breathed. It was the only way to get from any moment to the next. Breathe in, breathe out.
Kiera Cass
#50. For me the only way I can thank God for his ever-present creation is to offer him a new music impressed of a beauty which nobody had previously understood ... the music we play is one long prayer, a message coming from God
Albert Ayler
#51. Socrates defines his life's mission as awakening the Athenians to the supreme importance of attending to their souls. His timeless plea that we connect to ourselves remains the only way for any of us to truly thrive.
Arianna Huffington
#52. Families need a spiritual bond with one another and with God. God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.
Dennis Quaid
#53. In my desperation, I have finally discovered that the only way that I can begin to fill the gaping hole within me is to be thankful for what's there, and not angry for what's not.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#54. You think your life belongs to you? Tenar gave me my life. That's why I have to live, so that I can give life to someone else. Lebannen ... that is the only way we can live forever.
Goro Miyazaki
#55. Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy.
John Sculley
#56. The only way the gender divide affected me was the social things the younger guy executives could do with their bosses. I don't know what went on in the clubs, because I didn't go. I made sure my work was stellar, and that compensated for whatever social time we weren't spending together.
Stacey Snider
#57. Ome things were better, some were worse, and the only way one can ever learn to understand one's own youth is by accepting both halves of the proposition.
Nick Hornby
#58. The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#59. The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist - and she hates making that phone call!
Taylor Swift
#60. The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.
Amy Poehler
#61. Anarcho-capitalism: the realization that the only way to effectively govern the market is to have an effective market in governance.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#62. It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.
Tanya Tucker
#63. The only way to tell off an asshole was face-to-face and to look fantastic doing it. So, here she was, with perfect makeup, hair done in a riot of waves that had taken a ridiculously long time to create, and a brand new screw you and the horse you rode in on dress laid out on her bed.
Roberta Pearce
#64. The only way a relationship between you and God can be established is if you become grateful and build up a standard of gratitude. Only then will fulfillment come in life. Only then can you be happy in life. Only then will you be fulfilled in life. Because in God we trust and in God we dwell.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#65. I accept what I am, but I did not choose it. I experience human life in the only way I can, vicariously. I am a voracious consumer of books, tapes, holoplays, fictions and drama and histories of all sorts. I have experimented with dreamdust.
George R R Martin
#66. I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.
Gary Gilmore
#67. The only way out is to write your way out.
Mark Oetjens
#68. I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work.
Andrew Greeley
#69. I view every game I play for England as it could be my last, so I go out there and enjoy it. It's the only way I can approach it.
Graham Thorpe
#70. The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.
Lucy Powell
#71. The only way to know whats possible is to venture past impossible.
Mary Gaitskill
#72. You cannot enter heaven just because you dont want to be in hell. The only way you can be in heaven is by acknowledging that God is the only one that can give you freedom.
Matthew
#73. The current paradigm is so thoroughly established that the only way to change is to start over again.
Donald A. Norman
#74. I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.
Edward James Olmos
#75. The only way I could go on living was to believe I was not living.
Russell Banks
#76. The only way to stop a rebellion is to crush it with blood and fire, and to wound them so they'll never dare to raise a hand again.
Rachel Caine
#77. Man, I just feel blessed ... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me.
Sean Combs
#78. Sometimes the only way to answer the world is to laugh at its line of enquiry.
Ian Avery
#79. Sometimes letting go is the only way to find out who you're meant to hold on to.
J. Sterling
#80. I was horrified of the dark. I realized that the only way I could get over that fear was by scaring other people, so I became obsessed with ghost stories, drawing monsters, watching monster movies, sneaking into horror movies, and it's just been the love of my life forever.
Matthew Gray Gubler
#81. Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.
Frederick Lenz
#82. When something seems wrong in your life, the only way to have resolution with it is to let it go. Trying to make it right keeps it wrong.
Beth Johnson
#83. Although the phrase "come back" is misleading because in the realm of meditative daydream the only way to "go there" is, paradoxically, to totally "be here.
Tom Robbins
#84. The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.
Paul Newman
#85. The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
Adam McKay
#86. The only way anyone ever knows what matters to them is by losing it. If losing something breaks you in a way that can never be repaired, then that was what mattered. Now you know. Congrats. Try to live with it.
Mira Grant
#88. With parents, that's the only way sometimes that they can get across to their kids is by giving them an ultimatum.
Harry Shum Jr.
#89. In a vast & huge country like India, e-governance is the only way for effective delivery unto the last.
Narendra Modi
#90. The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all.
Freeman Dyson
#91. Again, the only way to know that we've seen into the true nature of something is that the story we're telling ourselves releases.
Adyashanti
#92. The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.
Thomas Merton
#93. The only way to bring the future closer is to make the BEST of the NOW.
Bill Harvey
#94. Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills, and in it you too have the only method of saving your people from enslavement.
Mahatma Gandhi
#95. The only way you can reach your full potential is if you open up and allow your self to be exposed to how you really feel.
Turcois Ominek
#96. When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together.
John Breaux
#97. At certain moments of intense personal grief, capturing images was for me the only way to comprehend later what was happening.
Pedro Meyer
#98. If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however, this is the only way.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#100. The only way to learn is to keep doing something new, and, if you're lucky, learning with people who really know how to do it.
Nora Ephron
