In The World Quotes
It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country - and indeed the world - has yet seen.
Humanity-attached-to-the-task-of-changing-the-world, which is only a single and fragmentary aspect of humanity, will itself be changed in humanity-as-entirety.
I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called:;: What's the use?
Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.
The world's culture is changing, adapting. People are keeping what's good in a culture, and sweeping out the rest.
Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared.
Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.
To know something about trees-about even one tree-is to know something profound about the nature of the world and our place in it.
People on a mission are unstoppable. God bless them for it. It would be a poorer, more miserable world without them.
No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.
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.
The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.
But he was not kidnapped. ... It's in his imagination. He creates his own world and he believes it is reality.
There's Doom Patrol, which is the world's strangest superheroes, and they're making their return.
I had on my team a girl who at age twelve just missed the world mile record for her age group. But at 20 she just couldn't run.
Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!
if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?
All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra.
There is a dream that the world could be at peace, but that requires that all the folks with arms disarm, or take over all the arms and allow us to trust them.
Shoot, after you've been through freeway traffic in Houston or Dallas, there's no road in the world that can scare you. Besides, we're pretty much used to driving long distances in Texas.
There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.
I found out about Jonathan Winters death a day after it happened. That seems wrong. A talent like his should be more revered. The world knew about Kim Kardashians divorce before she did.
Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone.
The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.
The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.
By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.
If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.
The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.
If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity; for the world denied Christ's.
It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.
It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.
Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.
The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.
We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!
Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.