Top 100 Way We Are Quotes
#1. When Jim Irsay called me five years ago, he told me, 'I want you to be our coach and help us win the Super Bowl.' He told me, 'We are going win it the right way. We are going to win it with great guys; win it with class and dignity. We are going to win it in a way that will make Indianapolis proud.'
Tony Dungy
#2. Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#3. In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
Billy Joel
#4. A work of fiction grips our imaginations because we care, both about the characters in the tale and about ourselves. To put it another way, we are concerned about the outcome of the story because what is happening to the characters could happen to us.
Donald Maass
#5. The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors.
Denis Parsons Burkitt
#6. We are all Unique in the Same World with Different Thinking and want to Have a Peaceful Life, please Accept Each Other in the Way we Are.
Jan Jansen
#7. It is natural that people do not want to be involved with us too much. There is no problem down to the smallest egotistical longing which the Gestapo cannot solve. Regarded in this way we are, if a joke is permitted, looked upon as a cross between a general maid and the dustbin of the Reich.
Reinhard Heydrich
#8. I'm in the dark as to how close to an edge or transition to a new ocean and climate regime we might me. But I know which way we are walking. We are walking toward the cliff.
Terry Joyce
#9. The Christian is confronted by two ways only, and if we are not on the strait and narrow way, we are on the wide and broad way.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#10. Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.
Lewis Black
#11. You may not believe in evolution, and that's all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important that how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.
Jane Goodall
#12. Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way.
Joyce Meyer
#13. Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.
Pema Chodron
#14. The moment the organic unity of belief and behaviour is damaged in any way, we are incapable of living out the full humanity for which we were created.
Eugene H. Peterson
#15. 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
#16. The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.
Rita Mae Brown
#17. The irony of war," he said. "It has always been this way. We are taught to think that the battle lines separate the good from the bad, but the truth, as you are beginning to understand, is less comfortable.
Jonathan Renshaw
#18. The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.
Andy Taylor
#19. Why is life so difficult? Why can't we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?
Beatrice Sparks
#20. I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we came to be the way we are.
David McCullough
#21. I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
J.D. Salinger
#22. [The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.
Steven Spielberg
#23. Life is a journey without plan or destination.
On the way we are preparing to plan and planning to return.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Whether we stay or whether we go - to be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made.
David Whyte
#25. We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#26. I firmly believe God continues to answer the prayers of His people even after He has taken them to heaven. Never forget that God isn't bound by time the way we are. We see only the present moment; God sees everything. We see only part of what He is doing; He sees it all.
Billy Graham
#27. In our own way, in your own way, we are all of us a masterpiece. Everyone is unique.
Chloe Thurlow
#28. We want characters - characters man - something novel - out of the way. We are wearied with everlasting sameness. Come drink! the wine will brighten your wits.
Edgar Allan Poe
#29. Most of the time, stuff doesn't just happen to us-we make it happen by what we do and the way we are.
Tony Jeary
#30. The way we are, we are members of each other. All of us. Everything. The difference ain't in who is a member and who is not, but in who knows it and who don't.
Wendell Berry
#31. Often hair is the way we are differentiated in this culture. To me the decision to straighten your hair is deeply political.
Jami Floyd
#32. Sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?"
"Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#33. The unconditional love that God gives us when we are in relationship with him frees us and sustains us; we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves according to worldly standards, we are fine just the way we are.
Tim Crawshaw
#34. Selfishness is neither good nor bad - it depends on the way we are selfish as to whether it nourishes or injures.
Hugh Prather
#35. From here on after let's stay the way we are right now. And share all the love and laughter that a lifetime will allow.
George Strait
#36. Rather than a plausible explanation for how we got to be the way we are, the standard narrative is exposed as contemporary moralistic bias packaged to look like science and then projected upon the distant screen of prehistory, rationalizing the present while obscuring the past. Yabba dabba doo.
Cacilda Jetha
#37. I think all of the secrets of the universe are revealed in history. We understand who we are by understanding where we've been and why we are the way we are, and where we come from.
Matt Barr
#38. One doesn't love in order to do what is good or to help or to protect someone. If we act that way, we are perceiving the other as a simple object.
Paulo Coelho
#39. Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are.
Alan Alda
#40. We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of being a cheap Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet.
Mika.
#41. What does the name Virgin mean? We are a company that likes to take on the giants. In too many businesses, these giants have had things their own way. We are going to have fun competing with them.
Richard Branson
#42. But no one believes in that way what he reads in a novel ... Oh yes they do. If only to see themselves as wise and superior and humanistic, they need to think of us as sweet and funny, and convince themselves that they sympathize with the way we are and even love us.
Orhan Pamuk
#43. I suppose it's the way we are, humans that we are. Always finding it easier to make ourselves the victim in someone else's tragedy.
Though it is true, too, that sometimes it is hard to know to whom the tragedy really belongs.
Chinelo Okparanta
#44. I'm fascinated with psychology, and with why a person walks the way they walk or why they walk into a room the way they do or why we are the way we are, and it's not exclusive to the psychology of a character.
Tatiana Maslany
#45. Doing one thing at a time and giving oneself wholly to doing it is the most efficient way one can possibly live, because there's no blockage in the organism whatsoever. When we live and work in that way, we are extremely efficient without being rushed. Life is very smooth.
Charlotte Joko Beck
#46. I believe each of us is a pilgrim in our own way; we are all lost souls, trying to find our way home.
Seth Adam Smith
#47. You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your way. We are who we choose to be.
Will Smith
#48. In at least one way we are atypical bloggers. That's because we just keep on posting. The typical blogger, like most people who go on diets and budgets, quits after a few months, weeks, or in many cases, days.
Stephen J. Dubner
#49. 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
#50. We are creators in the process of our own evolution. In this way, we are gods in our own universe. Self evolving gods, learning and expanding and interacting with a perpetual stream of incoming data
Ruben Papian
#51. Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that.
Anne Lamott
#52. 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
#53. We forget, she thought. We think that we were always the way we are now, but we were not. -
Alexander McCall Smith
#54. 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
#55. What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are.
Philipp Meyer
#56. We invent casuistical arguments for ourselves, we take a lesson from the Jesuits, and, for a time, contrive to allay our own doubts and convince ourselves that what we are doing is necessary, absolutely necessary, in a good cause. That is the way we are made; it is all as clear as daylight.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#57. Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand.
Amy Jo Martin
#58. The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E. Lockhart
#59. What I have found is that when we get to that still, small voice inside and begin to live by it, we see that that still, small voice doesn't judge us the way we are being judged by others all the time.
Echo Bodine
#60. Accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be ... may we live together in unwavering love and good health, amen.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#61. I am the way I am. We all are the way we are and I'm not sure any of us really knows why.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#62. Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.
John Perry Barlow
#63. The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others.
Robert Jensen
#64. We sat back and let the moon shine itself all over her, and we saw that Tia was full of light. Billy said that when we die the darkness leaves us.
'We're pure and perfect then,' he said, 'the way we are when we're born.
Glenda Millard
#65. The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture.
John Fiske
#66. As a footballer's wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers' Wives.
Karren Brady
#67. Sometimes I can feel it, the way we are
pouring slowly toward a curve and around it
through something dark and soft, and we are bound to
each other.
Sharon Olds
#68. When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.
Camila Alves
#69. With our sense of self out of the the way we are liberated from doubt and insecurity.
Steven Kotler
#70. We don't have to be harsh with ourselves when we think, sitting here, that our meditation or our oryoki or the way we are in the world is in the category of worst horse.
Pema Chodron
#71. Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.
Charles De Lint
#72. The one thing that cannot be outsourced is creativity. We have to find ways to support creative people because the only way we are going to improve our laws ... is by creating our way out of it.
Adam Leipzig
#73. If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.
Donald Hall
#74. In solitude, at last, we're able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined - by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence
Richard Rohr
#75. History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
David McCullough
#76. The only way we are going to ameliorate pressing social needs is through public intervention.
George Akerlof
#77. Nobody is wired wrong, because there's no wrong and right in the way we are.
Hannah Hart
#78. You think of me as a ... living stone - hard and cold. That's true. We are set the way we are, and it is very rare for us to experience a real change. When that happens, as when Bella entered my life, it is a permanent change. There's no going back ...
Stephenie Meyer
#79. When we are trying to come up with new health laws, you bring doctors, you bring experts in medicine. In urban planning, you bring the best architects. How it is possible that when we are talking about the way we are going to feed America, no chef shows up in the room?
Jose Andres
#80. The agony of being unable to answer the question of why are we the way we are, divisively instead of cooperatively behaved, has been the particular burden of life. It has been our species' particular affliction or condition - our human condition.
Jeremy Griffith
#81. The one thing everybody's looking for is unconditional love. We all need somebody to love us just the way we are
Joyce Meyer
#82. Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake! (Ms. Pole)
Elizabeth Gaskell
#83. I have come, more and more, to believe that the way we are in the world actually has an impact on the world. When we are respectful, joyous, grateful, engaged, the world responds to that in concrete ways. When we are angry and resentful, or selfish or bitter, things sour around us.
Alan S. Kesselheim
#84. We don't see things how they are, we see things the way we are.
Anais Nin
#85. We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#86. It's no surprise that at the same time that American universities have engaged in a serious commitment to diversity, they have been thought-prisons. We are not talking about diversity in any real way. We are talking about brown, black, white versions of the same political ideology.
Richard Rodriguez
#88. Stop looking in the mirror and forget how you look like; we are all special the way we are.
M.F. Moonzajer
#89. In spite of her desire for a contained universe, her life felt scattered, full of many small moments, without great purpose. That is what she thought, though what is most untrustworthy about our natures and self-worth is how we differe in our own realities from the way we are seen by others.
Michael Ondaatje
#90. Life is a struggle, but what most people don't realize is that our struggle, like Jacob's, is really a struggle with God! We want to be God, and there's no way we are going to win that struggle.
Rick Warren
#91. everybody needs help in some way, we are a community on earth, giving & receiving, ebbing & flowing, reflecting, even tough lessons can help
Jay Woodman
#92. We look for our perfect partners, and we wish we can be accepted the way we are. We seek unconditional love. It is all beautiful. While doing it we can always remember that we need to accept ourselves unconditionally, as much as we wish others to accept as with no conditions.
Raphael Zernoff
#93. We each sit alone, staring at this black screen with a whole range of emotions. But in a strange way, we are all doing it together, and we should take solace in the fact that no one has a clue what's going on. I
Aziz Ansari
#94. Every person and everything can change the destiny of every other person and every other thing, in a good or in a bad way! We are all destiny makers; everything is a destiny maker!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#95. In order to forgive an offender,
we have first to forgive ourselves,
then we can forgive them.
In this way we are not
helpless victims anymore,
we regain our power,
acting from our peaceful place
of power.
Human Angels
#96. I know who we are, and how we got that way. We are writers. We danced with the words, as children, in what became familiar patterns. The words became our friends and our companions, and without even saying it aloud, a thought danced with them: I can do this. This is who I am.
Anna Quindlen
#98. Sometimes we wonder what it's like to feel normal," Maida said. "You know, like all the people you see out on the streets or sitting in their little boxy homes."
...
"But then", Maida went on, "we see how boring they are and we're happy to be the way we are.
Charles De Lint
#99. We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The way we are taught to speak about freedom- war on terror and so on-falsifies freedom.
Slavoj Zizek
#100. But I do know we're deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.
Mitch Albom
