Quotes of: Towards Keyword

Coraline Jones: How can you walk away from something and then come towards it? Cat: Walk around the world. Coraline Jones: Small world.

Coraline

Esmerelda: I can't believe you sheep have strayed so far from the path of righteousness! Edward: [Walking towards Esmerelda] We're not sheep!

Edward Scissorhands

Ron: [Hermione is walking towards the werewolf Lupin] Hermione... bad idea... bad idea...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Nick Rice: [blocking a lecherous comment toward a colleague] What are you doing, Reynolds. Why are you here, your DVD player broken?

Law Abiding Citizen

Santa: Haven't you heard of peace on earth and goodwill toward men? Lock, Shock, Barrel: NO!

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Gracchus: You and I have a tendency towards corpulence. Corpulence makes a man reasonable, pleasant and phlegmatic. Have you noticed the nastiest of tyrants are invariably thin?

Spartacus

Colonel Hendry: [Riptide creates a whirlwind sending it toward him; to Shaw] What the hell did you put in my drink?

X-Men: First Class

Columbus: [while running towards Tallahasse and being chased by a zombie] Don't swing, don't swing! [slides under Tallahasse's baseball bat] Columbus: Swing!

Zombieland

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

Adolf Loos

We pass bills authorizing improvements and grants. But when it comes time to pay for these programs, we'd rather put the country's money toward tax breaks for the wealthy than for police officers who are protecting our communities.

David Price

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain...

Henry A. Wallace

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

Auguste Rodin

The big challenge for me is that my nature is more towards comedy, so I understand when a comedy thing is working; I know when I'm not bored in a comedy.

Ben Edlund

Just as the only reservoir for the typhus virus in nature is provided by man, so the only vector of infection is the louse. The bite of the louse is not virulent immediately after the infecting meal. It becomes so only towards the 7th day following i...

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

Lewis Thomas

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.

Saint Ambrose

I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

Jane Fonda

The intellectual power is never at rest; it is never satisfied with any comprehended truth, but ever proceeds on and on towards that truth which is not comprehended. So also the will, which follows the apprehension; we see that it is never satisfied ...

Giordano Bruno

Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price dist...

James Fallows

An economically confident America has - since becoming a world power at the start of the 20th century - tended toward global engagement. It is during times of economic stress (1930s, 1970s) that America has become more withdrawn.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.

Diane Wakoski