Into Quotes

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

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.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.