My Way Quotes - Page 37

• The other day I saw a guy with a sign that said, WHERE WILL YOU SPEND ETERNITY? Which freaked me out because I was on my way to the Department of Motor Vehicles.

  Arj Barker

  Motor Vehicles, Guy, Way

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• Since I was two years old, all I knew was gospel music. That music became such a part of my life it was as natural as dancing. A way to escape from the problems. And my way of release.

  Elvis Presley

  Years, Two Year Olds, Dancing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had that hunger, that desire, to be successful and I wasn’t going to let anything stand in my way.

  Jerry Rice

  Successful, Desire, Way

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• With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've gotta face that was meant for a mug shot and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years. If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop, or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.

  M. C. Gainey

  Cowboy, Past, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• O gentle vision in the dawn:
  My spirit over faint cool water glides,
  Child of the day,
  To thee;
  And thou art drawn
  By kindred impulse over silver tides
  The dreamy way
  To me.

  Harold Monro

  Art, Children, Water

  Harold Monro, “Child Of Dawn”

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• My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Writing, World, Way

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.281, Faber & Faber

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• I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.

  George W. Bush

  President, Way, Chiefs

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• Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.

  Plautus

  Ears, Way, Tongue

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• He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?
  He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
  I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder,
  And went with half my life about my ways.

  A. E. Housman

  Heart, Hands, Way

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.56, Delphi Classics

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• That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Work, Cutting, Space

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• My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

  Melinda Gates

  Running, School, Marketing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

  David Antin

  Thinking, Way, Path

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• I did it my way, and I have no regrets when I look back on my career that it was just a big focus for me.

  Pete Sampras

  Regret, Careers, Focus

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I often steal sandwiches, eat them, and put the container's back., with a signed autograph of my self in its place. It's my way of giving back to society.

  Thom Yorke

  Self, Giving, Way

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• If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood which I felt I had to control, otherwise I might end up in the loony bin. But when I made my way in the world I wanted to indulge myself in my fantasies to the extent that I could afford.

  George Soros

  Childhood, World, Might

  "Underwriting Democracy: Encouraging Free Enterpirse And Democratic Reform Among The Soviets In Eastern Europe". Book by George Soros, 1991.

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• I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

  Roddy Doyle

  Age, Might, Way

  "Commitments" Author Pens Short Goodbyes To Youth". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. May 21, 2011.

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• I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

  Rick Moody

  Taxonomy, Way, Breaking Down

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• Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.

  Emile Chartier

  Ideas, Way, Deny

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• If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.

  H. L. Mencken

  Golf, Men, White

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• My library card. Every hurdle I've faced, I have researched my way over at a library. I'm grateful for that part of the American spirit that believes every citizen should have access to books.

  Sarah Bird

  Believe, Book, Grateful

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• I greet you from Smyrna together with the Churches of God present here with me. They comfort me in every way, both in body and soul. My chains, which I carry about on me for Jesus Christ, begging that I may happily make my way to God, exhort you: persevere in your concord and in you community prayers.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Faith, Jesus, Prayer

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• My way is set as in stone, and I don't feel the need to veer off any longer. It has taken many days of searching and fighting, but in the end I have found what I was looking for. I have found my way home.

  Patrick Carman

  Taken, Home, Fighting

  Patrick Carman (2011). “Stargazer”, p.276, Scholastic Inc.

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• I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

  Edward Bond

  Writing, Play, Mad

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• I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Book, Writing, School

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• I came from a generation where women were almost deified, and like Groucho Marx's line, "I wouldn't want to be a member of a club that would have me as a member", I thought, "I wouldn't want to sleep with a woman who would sleep with me!" It took me a long time to work my way through that.

  John Waters

  Sleep, Long, Dating

  "My experiment at being God failed" by Joe Jackson, www.independent.ie. May 20, 2007.

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