In The World Quotes
It must be hard being you,” she said. “Mr. Perfect on the outside. Dr. Evil on the inside.” “It’s not that hard. The rest of the world isn’t as insightful as you.
The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence.
Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime.
There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.
I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.
Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.
I'd be the last person in the world to deny that there are many people for whom faith is - can be a great sustaining force.
When you put loving thoughts and behavior into the world, you plant seeds of self-respect. When you put unloving thoughts and behavior into the world, you destroy seeds of self-respect.
All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when the children grow up, not when we retire... but NOW.
I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.
Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world of the story as I can make them.
And even if you carry a survival kit around with you at all times, it won't guarantee you'll survive. No kit in the world can protect you from all the possible bad things.
The United States of America is the leading power in the world. Our friends and our adversaries respect us in large measure because they know that we are steady. We are fact-based. We are serious.
Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world.
The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.
By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.
One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful.
Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.
That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more recalcitrant, harder to assimilate writer.
I lived in upstate New York until I was ten years old and we moved overseas. I have a lot of nostalgic memories of that part of the world, and I love going back there by writing the Lakeshore books.
No two people can see the world in the same way. No matter what you’re looking at, no one is seeing it the same way you are.
It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who either die or marry.
There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.
I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.
The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.
When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.
I'd had the theater background for so long that I know that world inside out; I just didn't know the pace of how a TV set works, like how a show shoots.
All the times these arms were my only refuge from the world. Perhaps not fully appreciated then, but so sweet in my memory, and now gone forever.
I guess after tonight Boots won't think the whole world is her friend," thought Gregor. She had to find out sometime, but it still made him sad.
Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.
The spirit world speaks to us through the heart. The more we open our hearts and raise our own vibrations, the easier the connection.
Our hearts resonate at the same frequency as the earth and the universe. Therefore, we are all valuable instruments in the orchestration of the world and its harmony.
Everyone should strive to be a world citizen. Boundaries were created by man, not the Creator. There is no such thing as THEM vs. US. There is only WE.
Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.
We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.
There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.
Good works are continually being undone by the tons of hatred and anger which are being poured out on the world.
Some men, who begin by saying that the world is a hell, often end by saying that it is a heaven when they succeed in the practice of self-control.
Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.
Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.