This is not a universe that is advancing toward a goal; it is one that is caught in the grip of an unbreakable pattern.
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.
A raintree bent towards a window in one side of the bungalow, eavesdropping on the conversations that had taken place inside over years.
I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.
Her past is behind her, her future is of little concern. She moves towards the grave, at her own speed.
He walked towards me. My heart was pounding like a nineties warehouse rave.
Lucky for you, since you’re the most dangerous man I’ve ever met. A sane woman would run away from you, not toward you.
When ever possible...take the necessary steps forward towards peace and proclaiming truth. It's always possible.
Everything about riding a bicycle compels you towards beauty.
People can be cruel, deadly, heartless, selfish, disrespectful. They can be vice-ridden and lack any basic empathy toward their fellow man.
Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice.
Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.
China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.
The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.
Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.
Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.
In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn't remember the interview.
Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does.
Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.
I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I'm a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight.
I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't me. I'm not a scholar; I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.
