“There's always a way out. All you have to do is take it.”
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Parliament suspension: Thousands protest across the UK https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49534940 BBC News (31 August 2019)
2010s, 2019
“There's always a way out. All you have to do is take it.”
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.”
"The Roads We Take"
Whirligigs (1910)
Notebook entry, London, 1889-05-12.
Variant: Things didn't turn out the way they're supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
Source: Life of Pi
VALIS (1981)
Context: For each person there is a sentence — a series of words — which has the power to destroy him … another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person. If you're lucky you will get the second; but you can be certain of getting the first: that is the way it works. On their own, without training, individuals know how to deal out the lethal sentence, but training is required to deal out the second.
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.”
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The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)
Context: We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.
We can give a child a self-image. But is this a good idea? Hitler did a devastating job at that kind of thing. So does Chairman Mao. … I haven't defined a self, nor do I want to. A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.
I got out and do it. I don't sit down and talk about 14 points.
Appearance at Iowa State Fair - * 2015-08-15
Donald Trump's surprisingly savvy analysis of American politics
The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/16/donald-trumps-surprisingly-savvy-comment-about-american-politics/
2010s, 2015
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)