My World Quotes

Our most modern sin is that we do not love the world enough. We have exiled the holy from this realm so we can turn its mountains into money.

I really don’t feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not as an aristocratic intellectual.

This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God.

We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.

Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

When things aren't working out for people, the end of the world seems like an easy way to wipe the slate clean.

I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above — above the world, he's sort of God.

I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.

I wanted to go and explore the world, I guess. And I suddenly thought well, I'll just do it.

A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries is increasing in its evil influence and control over America and the entire world.

Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.

Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.

There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.

Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.

America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.

The world is full of places to which I want to return

In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch capital of the world.

Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles in agriculture, eliminating hunger and inequity.

I had the realization that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, it is caused by the production system and an absence of democracy throughout the world.

in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency.

After the journey around the world, writing Hope's Edge, I began to see that it is not possible to know what's possible - and therein lies our freedom.

Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the very fashion of which "passeth away.

My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon.

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.

I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha with me. I guess they always go after people these days. It's sport.

For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.

Other countries may triumph at global conferences where world representatives vote with their hands. But America seems to win whenever the world's people have an opportunity to vote with their feet.

The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.

The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who loves himself within the limits of the world.

It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste of time.

I think that the world ended a long time ago and no one realizes it. We're in a dream somewhere in a vortex of energy that just hasn't realized its nonexistence yet.

The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it.

Now, tantra is a little bit different than other forms of Buddhism because in tantra what we do is we use the sensorial worlds as access points or pathways to ineffability.

There is something to this fabric of life that is beautiful. If you find the world unpleasant, I don't think that is wisdom. That is a sign of a lack of wisdom.

Each time you meditate, you create a stronger connection with the world of inner light and happiness that exists within you.

One path leads back to this world, to rebirth; one path leads beyond. Your soul stands at a crossword, trying to make a decision, flipping a coin, a nice image for the soul, I think.

So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness.

... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.