Way quotes
20.1K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Browse quotes that often appear alongside way — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"I think I'm an observer in a way. And my life was not so - well, my life was bad too - but it's just that I had the sense to cope with it. But it's probably not that easy to cope if you're in a society where you get killed when your husband dies."
"Even in a bad market, location, location, location is a way to still buy and sell property."
"Any experience can be transformed into something of value. Everything depends on the way you look at things. You cannot have the success without the failures."
"It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people."
"Beginnings could happen more than once, or in different ways."
"you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way."
"You're not lost, Kaylee. You can't ever be lost, because I'll always know where you are. And if I'm not there with you, I'm on my way, and nothing standing between us will be standing for very long."
"Screw this. He’d blown his shot at nice-and-easy, which only left quick-and-brutal—my favorite way to play."
"Walking around nude in front of humans was not a good way to keep a low profile with the community. It was an excellent way to make new friends, though."
"Any propensity other than love cannot exist in the spiritual world. There is unlimited variegatedness, but they are all extraordinarily wonderful ways of expressing love."
"Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now."
"No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity."
"We may both be bad, but there’s a huge difference between us—I’m not content with being this way."
"I suppose everything is bound to look different when you aren't on your way to die."
"Everyone has to blame something for the way the world is."
"It is amazing how pretending to be in a different faction changes everything -- even the way I walk. That must be why it's so strange that I could easily belong in three of them."
"I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it."
"I feel acutely aware of how young I am. In a way that is good. It's productive. It makes me realise that I should be growing as a writer and a person."
"There is no way forward that isn’t through pain."
"I'm a shy, nervous person, and I don't like teaching with "terms." I didn't teach them, like, "This is first person, this is second person, this is foreshadowing," or whatever, so no one probably felt like they were learning anything. But I feel like teaching in that way reduces the concept to a term."
