Top 530 Towards Quotes

Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

Issues like security threats, declining traffic, high insurance premiums, rising fuel costs, among others, call for individual strengths to be aligned towards regional stability.

I have a tendency to lean towards a more retro look.

We shot the first season of ‘Hap and Leonard’ towards the end of the summer in Louisiana, in and around Baton Rouge. If anyone’s been to Louisiana or comes from Louisiana, they know what the weather’s like down there at that time of year: it’s unbearably hot for an Englishman.

I’ve always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.

The money I earn from a live show is divided into two parts. One section goes towards producing my music videos, and the other goes into my savings.

After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.

I’m a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

Anything that’s different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it’s driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character’s existence is a big help.

When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It’s a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It’s a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

I’m actually not a huge circus fan in the traditional sense, but I like a lot of the circus trappings of striped tents and caramel. I lean more towards Cirque du Soleil than Barnum and Bailey.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

We assume that we’ve come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It’s easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.

The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.

I definitely strive towards something I think of as a hallucination of music. That’s always been the OPN vibe. I think of it as mostly a felt thing, and a koan of feeling that is shared between me and OPN fans. We know what it is when it gets there.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

I had a normal upbringing, studied in Chaitanya Vidyalaya till class VIII, went to Australia for two years, returned and did my Inter at Oakridge. I wasn’t inclined towards academics. I barely scraped through.

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.

I like doing small parts, because I don’t feel I’m that practised in acting. It’s like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.

There’s a lot of work being done through the innovation arm of the World Bank, at the World Bank Institute. There’s a lot of work that we at the Rockefeller Foundation are doing and funding towards that end, and increasingly, the U.S. government is getting engaged.

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

Many of our ideas of what love is comes from stories… these are extremely powerful shapers of our attitudes towards love, and I think that, in some ways, often we’ve got the wrong story.

All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself.

Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I’ve grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.

My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him – be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person’s habitual misery.

Religions have always been clearly on to this psycho-therapeutic score. For hundreds of years in the West, Christian art had a very clear function: it was meant to direct us towards the good and wean us off vice.

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe’s youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

I cannot live on myths; somehow, science convinces me more easily. I am prone to lean towards science, ethics, and philosophy rather than myth, religion, and rituals.

I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it’s always the darker stuff.

Sometimes I get really down on myself for not having the exact career I want, but it’s ok as long as you know what you want and you’re going towards that. Accept it’s going to be a different path than you thought in the first place.

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a ‘culture of compassion.’ On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a ‘culture of vengeance.’

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it… and the journey is always towards the other soul.

The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.

We only call at ducks when their rear ends are towards us. If I’m looking at you and you call my name, then I know where the sound came from. But if you had your back to me and I holler and you turn around, you would assume somebody hollered. You want your decoys to represent the sound that you’re making.

Knowing more about numbers and being acquainted with them will not only enrich our lives but also contribute towards managing our day to day affairs much better.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die alone. If you die alone, the people you love will miss you, or if they die, you miss them – the sorrow is inevitable. When you truly love someone, the thought of losing them forever is horrible.

‘Entropy’ broadly means tending towards chaos constantly.

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.

Being a medical practitioner enables me to get in touch with people, understand their problems, feel sympathetic towards them, and the natural thing is to want to help them, and if you become a politician and if you are successful, you can help them even more.

Love of country, subordination of personal interests to the common good, concern and care for the helpless and the impoverished – these are among the lost and faded values that we seek to recover and revitalize as we commence our journey towards a better Philippines.

I gravitated towards Jim Ward, because I knew he was totally into the work aspect of being in a band.