World Quotes by Marcel Proust, M. Scott Peck, Algernon Blackwood, Kate Forsyth, John Coltrane, Thomas Paine and many others.
Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call.
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
You’re strong enough to stand up to anyone. Smart enough to do anything you want. Don’t sell yourself short; don’t be afraid of what your new life is going to offer. Because I know—if there’s any justice in this world, good things are going to come to you. Better things than you ever dreamed.
Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.
Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.
Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.
Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
I am sure innovation will blossom around the world, given that the Internet and mobile platforms enable innovators anywhere in the world to reach a global market with ease.
Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You’re not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you’re at peace with yourself. Learning life’s lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.
If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don’t know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, ‘Well, why don’t they get to go to Heaven then?’
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can’t do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That’s rare in any era.
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
I am glad that though someone did me grossly wrong my final mark on this world is not one of countering hurt with more hurt but is one of love and friendship. We will always be known by our actions. Let them always be good ones.
You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.
A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.
Now, what does a vampire do with a computer? Keep track of investments? Send e-mail to other vampires as you all plot to take over the world?” “I spend a lot of time on Wikipedia making corrections to the entries of historical figures I’ve known.” I blinked at him. “Really?” “No, Kitty. That was a joke.
The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.
I decided then that if the two people I loved most were safe, I could leave this world. The dead could finally have me. And IК№d fulfilled my purpose, right? To protect? IК№d done it. IК№d saved Lissa, just like IК№d sworn IК№d always do. I was dying in battle. No appointment books for me.
Modern music and artistry would look and sound completely different if not for the groundbreaking contributions Michael Jackson gifted to the world.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
But that’s part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs.
I believe that the world isn’t always what we can see…I believe there are secrets in the woods. And I believe that goodness wins out…So, if someone’s changed overnight – by witch curse or poison apple or were-turtle – you have to show them what’s good. You show them love. That works a surprising amount of the time.
The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we can remember about it.
If I can bring happiness to people all around the world, then I will try my best to do so.
Global warming is real – it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.
You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time You turn around. I know what I’m talking about. You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze In this goddam phenomenal world.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
I love travelling; going to different parts of the world and making new friends is something that I really enjoy.
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
The world is changing and people don’t like change.
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
The biggest problem is that Facebook and Google are these giant feedback loops that give people what they want to hear. And when you use them in a world where your biases are being constantly confirmed, you become susceptible to fake news, propaganda, demagoguery.
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Sexton: I think the whole world’s gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It’s always like this. You probably just don’t get out enough.
People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.
Now let me be clear; millions of women around the world nurse their children beautifully for years without giving anybody else a hard time about it. Teat Nazis are a solely western upper-middle-class phenomenon occurring when highly ambitious women experience deprivation from outside modes of achievement.
The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Never build a dungeon you wouldn’t be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.
Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.
No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
I’m the greatest thing that ever lived! I’m the king of the world! I’m a bad man. I’m the prettiest thing that ever lived.
The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.
The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
It was a secret time and place, you next to me, untraceable and out of this world
In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could.
The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it’s kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
He who controls the remote, controls the world
You love each other – anyone can see that, looking at you – that kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory.
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one’s power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
Don’t play for safety – it’s the most dangerous thing in the world.
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
In boxing, they say it’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out. In the wider world, the reality we ignore or deny is the one that weakens our most impassioned efforts toward improvement.
We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone… and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
The greatest want of the world is the want of men – men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give – pleasure, possessions, power – but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
The thing about changing the world… Once you do it, the world’s all different.
I want to burn the world because Alan is gone,” he said. “I want to destroy everything I see. But you mean something to me. I will not destroy the world, because it has you in it.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.
She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat, or hers, he believed they would always share a destiny.
I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.
Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.
I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: … At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a ‘new world order‘ based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court.
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
The mercy of the world is you don’t know what’s going to happen.
The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds – even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.
Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that’s nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.
Empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.
If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Things don’t have to change the world to be important.
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
I thought if we made an album that tried to change the world, or give it hope, it would really happen. But all people found was death and destruction and misery and self-hate. I learned that the world doesn’t want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try.
The world may need fixing, but it’s worth preserving.
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Thankfully, dreams can change. If we’d all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.
You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can’t let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached.
I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don’t even think it’s as much as what I want for myself. It’s more what I want for the people around me. That’s what I want.
Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.
We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.
I tend to be so lost in the work that I don’t notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, ‘Beautiful day, wasn’t it?’ and I’ll say, ‘Was it?’ as I won’t have noticed the real world at all.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.
Cinema is a world of imagination.
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
Winning a pageant or sometimes simply participating in a contest can change your life. Outer beauty is just a part of the judgement, but what’s important are your views and opinions that are shown to the world.
sad things are beautiful only from a distance therefore you just want to get away from them from a distance of one hundred and thirty years ….i’m going to distance myself until the world is beautiful
To all the other dreamers out there, don’t ever stop or let the world’s negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.
Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.
Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
In the hyperconnected world, there is only “good” “better” and “best.
The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
The mortal world is in a state of Beautiful Chaos and destruction, which will ultimately lead to an exquisite end.
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Daisy has a unique spirit. A warm and romantic nature. If she is forced into a loveless marriage, she will be devastated. She deserves a husband who will cherish her for everything she is, and who will protect her from the harsher realities of the world. A husband who will allow her to dream.” -Westcliff
Imagination rules the world.
My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
the whole purport of literature…is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.
She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.
I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It’s fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it’s tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, ‘I was wrong’.
I think there’s no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people’s lives and improve the world.
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.
The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.
Our world is built on adrenaline and getting away with it. Different cities different names. Its a far simpler life to lead when there is one around to tell you when you are being stupid. Believe me dear cousin I know better than anyone. – Gabrielle
There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Her eyes, mostly cast downward, occasionally flicker upwards to meet his before falling again. She is apologetic for everything, as always, constantly saying sorry to the world, as though as her very presence offends.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.
The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things – to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place, because nuclear power and nuclear weapons go hand in hand.
Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?
The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.
We live in the world when we love it.
There’s a point when you have to stop fightin’ the whole world.
Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds – it’s the production of food and fiber from the world’s land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say ‘we,’ I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.
Love–the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.
A life without orgasms is like a world without flowers.
Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world‘s joy.
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
We will build the city from scratch. It will be drone-friendly and a center for the development of robotics. We want to create something different. Neom is a place for dreamers who want to create something new in the world, something extraordinary.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.
As you get older, you want less from the world; you just want to experience it. Any barriers to feeling emotions get dismantled. And ordinary things become beautifully poetic.
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.
Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920’s and 1930’s when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother‘s keeper.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
The most wonderful thing, Mary, is that you and I are always walking together, hand in hand, in a strangely beautiful world, unknown to other people. We both stretch one hand to receive from Life – and Life is generous indeed.
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
And then I did laugh, even though the future was a dangerous place, because I loved her, and she loved me, and the world was beautiful.
The world didn’t like to look at the dark underside very often. But that didn’t change the ugliness; it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape.
You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
It’s important to surround yourself with good people, interesting people, young people, young ideas. Go places, learn new stuff. Look at the world with wonder – don’t be tired about it.
The water crumbles on it’s way down as my hands and feet push me forward. The world is lightening, taking shape, and turning to color. It feels like it’s being painted around me.
I see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.
I’ll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world.” – Paloma
The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward.
Of course I’m trying to trick you! That’s the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else.
I’d rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
My boy, you shall be everything in the world, animal, vegetable, mineral, protista, or virus, for all I care-before I have done with you-but you will have to trust my superior backsight. The time is not yet ripe for you to be a hawk… so you may as well sit down for the moment and learn to be a human being.
Who ever said the world was fair?
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living.
The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
Any place you love is the world to you.
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana‘ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Treat the world like a head.
The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)” (p. 3).
All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
When two souls are as one, they stay together on the Wheel. I was born into this world to love you, and I will love you in the next life, and the one after that.” ~Jem Carstairs
When we achieve human rights and human dignity for all people – they will build a peaceful, sustainable, and just world.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
We’ve got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.
Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world’s hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman’s tenderness.
You know full well as I do the value of sisters‘ affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
You don’t have to live up to anyone else’s standards, you don’t have to look like anyone else, you don’t have to compare yourself to anyone else. You being you is enough, and you putting your positivity and good vibes out into the world, once you get to that point absolutely everything will fall into place.
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain.
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There’s more to life than you know and it’s all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Batman: a force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents, they said he was a ghost. A walking dead man. A symbol of rebellion that would never fade as long as the system survived. Anarchy in black.
To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values – above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
A hatchling, that is what you are. A hatchling struggling into the world. I may be younger than you in years, but I am ancient in my thoughts. Do not worry about these things. Find peace in where and what you are. People often know what must be done. All you need to do is show them the way — that is wisdom.
The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.
Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should–a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.
So remember this is a bieber world.your just living in it. Bieber or die.
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.
Omens are everywhere in this world you just have to find the one that fits.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself
I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.
That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up a world where my needs wouldnВґt exist at all.
The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Genius or fool, you don’t live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody‘s going to come along and screw up the works.
Think positive girl, or the world ends.
Alone. The saddest word in the world.
We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.
To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one’s breast and groan over oneself.
You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We’ll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And that isn’t right, your Reverence. The world will be an evil place as long as people don’t believe in other people.
Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
The key to seeing the world‘s soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.
There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say “They told me to do it! It’s their fault, not mine.” The freedom, God help us, to say “I was only following orders.”-World War Z
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.
President Kennedy’s assassination, less than two weeks ago, has struck the world dumb. It’s like no one wants to be the first to break the silence. Nothing seems important.
All the money in the world can’t buy you back good health.
I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.
Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.
Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others – its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.
Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.
What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.
You change the world by being yourself.
Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can’t ask his patients what is the matter…he’s just got to know.
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
Can I ask you a personal question“? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about to follow.
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
You shine like a beacon in a dark world.
Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.
We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.
Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It’s either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it’s Colin.
My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.
In my world, of course, it don’t matter. You could be a gangster with a dress, you could be a gangster with baggy pants.
How much do you love me?’ Midori asked. ‘Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,’ I said.
People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine.
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Just imagine how different the world could be if we all spoke to everyone with respect and kindness.
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then-and-there decision.
Pop culture and entertainment can be dismissed as surface, but it’s not. It’s the language we all speak, and it’s the connection point between people all over the world.
To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.
When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
…they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.
What’s important is that you stay true to yourself. Because when you enter the real world, the most valuable thing you can bring is all your you-ness. The world doesn’t need any more hot chicks or tough guys or smooth talkers – the world needs more you. And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital – the world’s best talents and greatest ideas.
There are two kinds of people in this world. ‘I’ people and ‘we’ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‘we’ person.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal.
It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
One word,” Ted replied, dead serious, “can change the whole world.” There was a moment while we all considered this. Finally Lissa said to Chloe, loud enough for all of us to hear (she’d had a minibottle or two herself), “I bet he did really well on his SATs.
Example moves the world more than doctrine.
I’m steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.
Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
It’s not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.
On Memorial Day, I don’t want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.
Being human means losing everything we love best in the world,” she murmured as she released me. “But would you ask to be anything else?
Things can be seen better in the darkness,” he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. “But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is
If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.
