In The World Quotes
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.
The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.
I knew I wanted to engage in the world of the imagination, but it was not economically feasible for me to study acting, so I went to a teachers' training college.
Wherever I am in the world, if I get free time when I'm filming I always hire a car, take to the road, drive for miles and explore.
The world is full of small ignorances. We must all do our best to ignore them and thereby keep them small, don't you think
for ... austere and gracious allegory, as for so much of its mysticism and its chivalry, its ardours and its endurances, the world is in debt to Spain.
The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.
I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me.
Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a New World.
Photography is the only "language" understood in all parts of the world, and, bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.
I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that - on the contrary!
The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.
When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.
An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world.
How do you pray? Take the gospel of each day and spend ten minutes with it. Read it, and read it again. Walk into the world with the gospel in your heart.
The great # conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God.
The most important thing I've come to believe in is that people with mental handicaps have a unique mission to bring God's blessing to the World.
...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the world around us and help us discover who we are.
The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation.
Beneath our frantic activities, there's a deep desire to show the world we are worthwhile.
Probably looking at a piece of paper and all the features of a minivan, the minivan is probably the best car in the world.
To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.
There are more temples across the earth than there have ever been. More people in all the world have felt the Spirit of Elijah move them to record the identities and facts of their ancestors' lives.
Whoever, with an earnest soul, Strives for some end from this low world afar, Still upward travels though he miss the goal, And strays--but towards a star.
To play Bond, though, and then for the world to perceive you in a certain way, is very different from playing Superman. Bond is not this ideal figure.
I love to compete. I competed in 40-50 matches internationally all across the world. I'm young, I'm healthy, and I love to compete. If I don't compete, I'll get bored.
The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.
Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.
Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."
In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.
The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the world, while he lives.
Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.
Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin its inconceivable purity.
There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.
Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.
The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.
The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.
It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.
Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.
