My World Quotes
Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.
I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.
The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.
When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.
I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry.
At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.
When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.
I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.
Congo is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and has millions of acres of virtually untouched forest.
I started in this sport at 12 years of age and the goals I set was to be among the best and be the world champion.
I already have a story that's been seen in Glory and I have had many highs and lows, victories and defeats. That brought me experience and it will help me a lot to gain the desired world title.
I suppose you could never say never, but my experience would tell me that the most successful players in the world are gonna come from an environment that is more competitive at an early age.
An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist.
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
I like to work with children because their way of reacting to the world is simple, and they are innocent.
The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place.
This was a kind of dying. Losing the woman I truly had loved, and still loved more than anything, was just unfathomable. To me, she was the world.
The elusive truth is that there is nothing stress-producing in the physical world. Things simply are. Molecules move. Light and sound appear.
I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.
Sometimes I just think we're not meant to fly halfway around the world in a day. That some kind of mutation is going to happen.
You remove heavy metals out of the ground and you turn that into tables, and houses and bridges and dreams for people in the developing world. I love doing that.
I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous from the grassroots up, nations in the world.
Id like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.
I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.
That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes an immigrant story into an American story .
We live in a world where you can walk into a bookstore and get a how-to guide on just about anything. But no one tells you how to die with dignity. No one tells you how to go out like the winner.
I have the incredibly good fortune of being able to make the majority of the work I produce in the world on my own with no one bothering me. It really comes entirely out of me.
If tomorrow we decided only to desist from killing and causing suffering for sport and entertainment, the world would be significantly better for animals. Even this we have failed to achieve.
Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever.
Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.
Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.
Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.
It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.
I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.
I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.
Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.
We like the idea of being a little divisive without making it into some kind of philosophical musical approach, and maybe we can convert some people to our view of the world.
I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances.
For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.
When you're in front of an audience, you know if it didn't work. I get very nervous and have a fear of failure that is much more profound than in the podcast world.