Toward Quotes

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons.

The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank.

Goals seem impossible only when you are not heading toward them.

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.

I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great.

I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.

I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort.

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.