Toward Quotes

China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

We made a good start toward preserving recreational areas like the Chattahoochee River.

For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it.

Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it may prove to be the mountain-too-high for Barack Obama's campaign.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief.

Businesses should be assured that law enforcement will operate with the utmost sensitivity toward victims of cyber attacks.

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.

There are many causes of violent deaths in America - murders and traffic accidents - that we do not approach with the same 'no price too steep, no task too difficult' approach that we take toward al Qaeda.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to.

It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

Folks are like plants; we all lean toward the light.

Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

There is no evidence of any kind except that is directed toward Oswald.

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

I was shocked at the anger toward me.

Some of the old refs have favoritism toward some of the fighters that are currently fighting. There should be a changing of the guard with the refs, the same way there are with fighters.

Attitudes toward food have completely changed.

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.

A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.

When you eat healthfully, your body gravitates relatively rapidly toward a better weight.

I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'

The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males.

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.

The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.

My art has always been in response to visions. Rather than confine my subject to representations of the outer worlds, I include portrayals of the multi-dimensional imaginal realms that pull us toward consciousness evolution.

I know that many in Europe are unhappy with their governments' policies toward the Palestinians.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.

Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people.

Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy.

I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.

One fails forward toward success.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

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

We should be moving toward local currencies not global or European currencies.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama's hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics of Israel and his voluntary membership in Reverend Wright's decidedly anti-Semitic church. Furthermore, his campaign website featured anti-Semitic posts.

So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.

God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

I'm working my way toward divinity.

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

Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.

I think the kind of person that gravitates toward New York is a person that's not so much focused on controlling exactly how they appear and how they exit. They're more fascinated with the process.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.

Our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.