In The World Quotes

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds.

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

Of course, most of the people in this world are stressed, and most of those who are not stressed are totally bored!

Some people say, the world can be so alive! It always is, you just do not know it because of the screen of your thinking. You notice it as you become more awake.

Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.

One could say that everybody in this world has a spiritual teacher. For most people, their losses and disasters represent the teacher; their suffering is the teacher.

I am optimistic that humanity is going to make it, that humanity is going to reach, finally, a new state of consciousness which will then create a different kind of world.

I want find to beauty in the world but to do so requires you to acknowledge and confront the darkness.

When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.

It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.

We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

I suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world.

You have the American dream! The dream is to be born in a gutter and grow up, and then get all the money in the world and stick it in your ears and go THBBBBBT.

If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.

The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.

The world is fine. Our place on it is precarious.

In a world as empirical as ours, a youngster who does not know what he is good at will not be sure what he is good for.

All the world loves a lover, but how it does laugh at his love letters.

The world is no longer closed to us in the way it was in the past - present generations have unparalleled access to pretty much all corners of the globe.

Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.

The transcendent experience is common to every culture in the world.

In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one of us was of a different world.

My biggest fear in the world is going broke and having to depend on someone else again.

The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.

Personally, I'm happier than I've ever been. So for me and my tiny little bubble the world is awesome, but I think that the world is in a pretty horrific state, especially at the momet with Syria.

They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.

Just imagine dressing the two handsomest men in the world, and then getting this!

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.

When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.

There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.

England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.

It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the next.

The world only remembers the winners.

We shared a philosophy together [with June Hillary]. We believed very strongly in the welfare of helping other people, particularly the Third World people.

I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.

Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed sourse,And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse.

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends.

Lord, I do fear Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year My soul is all but out of me-let fall No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call.

When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more.

A unipolar world - one with only one power - makes sure that this space almost disappears. In a multipolar world this space multiplies. Therefore, there is nostalgia for a multipolar world.

A world without open country would be universal jail.

The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!

It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return.

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me.

Our world is defined by the pace of change. We can all change the world.