Top 100 The Way Things Are Quotes
#1. Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation we want is first of all spiritual; that will necessarily change the way things are.
Joseph Goebbels
#2. Baggage is just the lies you tell yourself about the way things are. Those lies clutter up and obscure a clear perception of the world and other people.
Annette Vaillancourt
#3. The pursuit of truth, as a form of political action, is inherently disruptive, anti-authoritarian, and dangerous to those content with the way things are.
Nancy Snow
#4. Nonetheless, I know where I'm coming from,
I've got an idea on where I'm going,
And with the way things are going,
I'm just glad to be me.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#5. If opportunity knocks, let it in. But with the way things are nowadays-I'd rather meet opportunity somewhere that's more public. I could meet opportunity in a coffee shop, but what if it works there? Well, I could suggest my grandma's basement.
-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz
James Lee Schmidt
#6. People often say that it is easier to predict the way things are going to be 10 to 20 years in the future than to predict how it is going to be 3 years from now.
Mark Zuckerberg
#7. I am not very happy the way things are going out there in New Zealand,
Sanath Jayasuriya
#8. I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.
James Dickey
#9. About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy, some absurd 10-year-old Japanese stereotype, some role related to IT or business ... There's no point in getting mad about it; it's just the way things are.
Ken Watanabe
#10. You refuse to believe that your will is weaker than the way things are right now.
Dan Waldschmidt
#11. The way things should be and the way things are hardly ever get together.
Stephen King
#12. This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.
Andrew Klavan
#13. You kill
You die.
That was probably the most naive thing I've ever said. The fact is
in most cases, NOW, the way things are
you kill
you LIVE.
Robert Kirkman
#14. There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are.
Sarah Ockler
#15. Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.
Bertrand Russell
#16. How can you construct a morality if there's no morality inherent in the way things are? You might be able to delude yourself into thinking you had 'created' a morality, but that's all it would be, an illusion.
John Lennox
#17. I think it's important that we run that tension between the way things are, in terms of the way we're governed, and the way we sort of become complacent.
Adrian Grenier
#18. I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film - now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.
Tadanobu Asano
#19. Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.
Kurt Vonnegut
#20. Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.
Richard Marcinko
#21. The world is not divided into the strong who care and the weak who are cared for. We must each in turn care and be cared for, not just because it is good for us, but because it is the way things are.
Sheila Cassidy
#22. You've gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they're not a part of the whole social media world.
Kevin Hart
#23. You're only as good as your last fight. It's just the way things are. It's the way that the sport is built.
Andre Ward
#24. Reality is always true to itself. When you're in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in harmony with it, you experience pain. This is the law of the universe; it is the way things are. Nobody gets out of this law.
Adyashanti
#25. There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it's now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it's simply the way things are.
Tammy Baldwin
#26. Worship is God's way of giving us an opportunity to shift our focus from our own concerns, problems, and circumstances to the way things are in heaven.
David Jeremiah
#27. The way things are going the faces on next year's bubble-gum cards will be lawyers.
Reggie Jackson
#28. Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: 'Oh, that's just the way things are done around here.' Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.
Steve Jobs
#29. I think fashion in motion is going to happen. I think that's the way things are going, but there are people who will still want to see a picture and to be able to hold it.
Kate Moss
#30. It's amazing how resilient people are, and how the things that didn't come true become,after a while, simply the way things are.
Anna Quindlen
#31. No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
P. J. O'Rourke
#32. Defiance of the way things are is the only way to embrace what's coming.
Shelly Crane
#33. Belief is another word for paradigm. It's a synonymous. Your belief of the way things are. Values are the way things should be, it's a paradigm of the way things should be. Beliefs are the paradigms of the way things are.
Stephen Covey
#34. You have to accept the way things are before you can move on.
Jack Kornfield
#35. And I know you thought a lot of him. I realize I'm hardly the perfect substitute, but like I said, the way things are going maybe it's stupid to wait for perfection. Suddenly he was looking directly at her and Cassie saw something in his mahogany eyes she'd never seen before.
L.J.Smith
#36. Even the people that support Bush aren't happy with the way things are going in Iraq.
Kevin Bacon
#37. Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are.
Vladimir Nabokov
#38. You can argue with the way things are. You'll lose, but only 100% of the time. - BYRON KATIE
Toni Bernhard
#39. I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.
Jimmy Carter
#40. What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are.
Epictetus
#41. Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were.
John Paul Caponigro
#42. 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
#43. Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.
Billy Crystal
#44. Never assume that you're stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you.
Ralph Marston
#45. Don't hate me for wanting to change the way things are. I believe in you, Callum. You can change the world, I know you can. But not like this, I'm not trying to be magnanimous or patronizing. I genuinely want to help but ...
Malorie Blackman
#46. 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
#47. That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.
Anna Quindlen
#48. What is drama, and what is dharma? I guess you could say drama is illusion that acts like truth, and dharma is truth itself - the way things are, the basic state of reality that does not change from day to day according to fashion or our mood or agenda.
Ponlop Rinpoche, Dzogchen
#49. Be content with what you have and take joy in the way things are. When you realize you have all you need, the World belongs to you.
James Frey
#50. I'm not saying that either Socs or greasers are better; that's just the way things are.
S.E. Hinton
#51. It's fresh to you because you're too young to know anything but the way things are now.
Actually, it is kind of incredible that things were ever any other way, isn't it?
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#52. Just that what happens today or next week or next year isn't necessarily the way things are always going to be. As soon as you settle into a routine, life throws you a curveball. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#53. Everyday US Marines make possible the impossible and then go about their business like it's just the way things are supposed to be.
Mark W. Boyer
#54. And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it, really look, you'll see the way things are.
Patricia Reilly Giff
#55. That is the way things are weighed and disagreements settled - when standards are established. Philosophy aims to test and set such standards. And the wise man is advised to make use of their findings right way.
Epictetus
#56. Listen cousin, the way things are supposed to work out, one day the struggles of all you screwed up little underdogs will forge a permanent rainbow that'll encircle this entire earth, I should live so long.
John Nichols
#57. Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you to point out that they are wrong, even when they are. That is the way things are, Mma
it just is.
Alexander McCall Smith
#58. You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.
Jesse Jackson
#59. Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of great relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are ONE.
Marcus Aurelius
#60. I think the responsibility of pop stars is to liberate the masses. In that everyone can be whatever they wanna be. You can march to your own beat. It's so hard sometimes in our country because conformity is the way things are pushed.
Adam Lambert
#61. I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.
Miriam Toews
#62. You can't be stuck if you're not trying to get anywhere. Which, to me, means that when you stop fighting with the way things are, magic happens. You relax, open, and any action you take comes from alignment with what's true.
Geneen Roth
#63. The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life.
Nat Friedman
#64. I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.
Walker Percy
#65. There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that ... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be.
Brent Weeks
#66. It's just the way things are." she shrugged. "It's no one's fault."
"Or everyone's.
Scott Westerfeld
#67. You can't tell me you haven't noticed the way things are at school. I'm everyone's favorite loser. There isn't anyone more fun to pick on then me.
Cindy C. Bennett
#68. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao-Tzu
#69. Life hasn't signed a contract with you promising to give you everything you want. It just unfolds in its own mysterious and uncontrollable way. The more you stop resisting the way things are, the happier and more peaceful you'll be.
Jonathan Landaw
#70. Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
Victor Hugo
#71. Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world. And if you do the latter, you're not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
Irvin D. Yalom
#72. The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.
Sherwood Boehlert
#73. I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.
Robert Rauschenberg
#74. Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
Alan Hirsch
#75. Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.
Albert Einstein
#76. A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are
but with the way they ought to be.
Joseph Pulitzer
#77. When Christianity is assumed to be an "answer" that makes the world intelligible, it reflects an accommodated church committed to assuring Christians that the way things are is the way things have to be.
Stanley Hauerwas
#78. One can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, [so] they are told that bringing up children is their divine mission. But the way things are in the world, bringing up children has a great deal in common with washing up saucepans.
Simone De Beauvoir
#79. I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy ... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.
Jose Mujica
#80. When you assess something as a problem instead of as something to simply be accepted as the way things are, you are assuming there is a potential resolution.
David Allen
#81. To complain now would be kind of sad. I like the way things are going.
Josh Brolin
#82. It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.
Carol Bartz
#83. When I was in my early twenties, parts would be written for women in their fifties, and I would get them. And now I'm in my early thirties, and I'm like, 'Why did that 24-year-old get that part?' I was that 24-year-old once. I can't be upset about it; it's the way things are.
Anne Hathaway
#84. That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.
Ray Bradbury
#85. You can never take anything personally. Just a story. It's not their fault they want to kick you and it's certainly not yours. It's just the way things are. Sometimes you need to hear the worst, so you have no fear in what you do and learn to work around the what-have-you.
Initially NO
#86. The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're called public servants. They're supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that's why we're called private individuals.
Glenn Greenwald
#87. Today, with the way things are in all circles, in soccer, in society, in politics, where it seems anything goes, a gesture of honesty goes down well.
Ivan Fernandez Anaya
#88. I love my family and they have always been my world. But, now my world has you in it, and with the way things are those two worlds can't be together.
Nicole Gulla
#89. Think deeply about things. Don't just go along because that's the way things are or that's what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.
Aaron Swartz
#90. It's exciting. But you can't keep fighting the way things are forever.
Scott Westerfeld
#91. I tell them that if compulsive eating is anything, it's a way we leave ourselves when life gets hard. When we don't want to notice what is going on. Compulsive eating is a way we distance ourselves from the way things are when they are not how we want them to be.
Geneen Roth
#92. Writers are never fully present because they're always imagining a different version of the way things are happening; imagining the past in a different way, imagining the present in a different way, imagining the future in a different way.
Jessica Soffer
#93. The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have.
Nido R. Qubein
#94. All the important things in life lie beyond reason ... and that's just the way things are.
Alister E. McGrath
#95. think about the littler rules. Club rules. Social standards. Values. "The way things are normally done." Opinions, every one. Yet we live our lives as if they're immutable truths.
Johnny B. Truant
#96. Good rom-coms have some reflection of the way things are, the sign of the times.
Rashida Jones
#97. When you look at - when you talk to people in Africa and across the Middle East, they're not satisfied with the way things are going. Sure, this idea of democracy was injected into the region, but it has brought mostly chaos.
Richard Engel
#98. We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be.
Robert Fulghum
#99. The only person I can count on is myself. It's up to me to create the life I want. I can't blame my parents or Scott or anyone else for the way things are.
Susane Colasanti
#100. The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.
Jodi Picoult
