In The World Quotes

Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!

For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.

I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity.

And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.

I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.

I know everyone is busy in life and for them to take out the time to still think about me and send me a card or a letter, that really meant the world to me. I'm grateful for that.

I love zombie films like Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' - I thought it was so brilliantly done and so grounded in reality. I was definitely thrust into the zombie world watching that film.

It is a great honor for me to be presented the award by Mikhail Gorbachev and also to be acknowledged with the World Actress Award at the Women World Awards Gala 2005.

It doesn't matter what people say about me, whether they're in Philly, or whether they're in San Francisco... all across the world.

A lot of people have to deal with the feeling that their worlds are caving in.

For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.

Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.

You haven't experienced anything until you've been to Africa. You know the world is bigger than you are after you see Africa.

Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world

It's the shock of the world if you allow yourself to disconnect from the world and forget it's out there, how noisy it is, how busy it is, how invasive it is.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!

I got tired of my taxes paying for exciting little wars around the world. Then I discovered that when I died, my wife would probably have to sell our house to pay for the taxes in America.

Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.

The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.

...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be

This is where the gods play games with the lives of men, on a board which is at one and the same time a simple playing area and the whole world. And Fate always wins.

The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.

Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians

The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his.

There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

It's a god-eat-god world.

People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense.

Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow of the other world. There will be no unhappy memories.

Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is a lot more comp-li-cated than it looks from the ooutside.

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.

If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.

They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.

Maybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world.

Hopefully there will come a time when I have no words, when I can honor and hold that kind of stillness that I so need, crave, and desire in the natural world.

I am a Mormon woman, I am not orthodox. It is the lens through which I see the world. I hear the Tabernacle Choir and it still makes me weep.

I come from a culture that embodies the need to convert others to "the truth." The Mormon Church has one of the largest missionary programs in the world. That does not interest me.

I feel like we are at a time of great creativity if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose to engage the will of our imaginations and imagine another way of being in the world.

I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.

The matter of people being attracted to other countries is a permanent problem in my view, it doesn't only face South Africa. A whole lot of countries in the world are faced with this problem.

Of course we run a very open economy, and therefore what happens in the rest of the world, in economic terms, obviously has an impact on us.

We would take the same position as the majority of the world about this, including this issue where Prime Minister [Ariel] Sharon made a commitment to pull Israeli troops out of Gaza.

What you deny to others will be denied to you, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself; all your words and actions define the world you want to live in.

I love to know that in all parts of the world, people want me. I need the attention.