In The World Quotes

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, can defend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend Upon it.

On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.

This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out Of dirt . . . It is not possible for the moon To blot this with its dove-winged blendings.

The word is the making of the world

That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say. That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way. The world is ugly, And the people are sad.

In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual.

Words of the world are the life of the world.

Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the making of the world, The buzzing world and lisping firmament.

The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other.

The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.

Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost.

I work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.

For all the saints who from their labors rest, Who, to the world their steadfast faith confessed, your name, O Jesus, be forever blessed Alleluia!

What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.

I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.

The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less, it comes or it lags behind, It comes from its embowered garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world.

But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.

In the world's structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth.

Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope and prayers.

America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.

Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.

Islam in the Arab world coexists with Indonesian, Pakistani and Turkish Islam. There is limited solidarity, even within the Arab world.

Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.

Whatever truth you contribute to the world will be one lucky shot in a thousand misses. You cannot be right by holding your breath and taking precautions.

There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

For no change comes calmly over the world.

I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.

My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.

I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that they see the world and they structure the world.

Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world in which they are to have no direct share.

Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.

If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the spleen.

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

It doesn't matter what kind of world we live in as long as we have each other.

I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.

There is something beautiful and permanent in the world, and that is the love that a person can have for another human being.

Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln.

AIG would be doing fine today. It was one of the ten largest companies in the United States in terms of market value, over 200 billion, the most respected insurer and everything in the world.

In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.