What Is In The World Quotes
How presumptuous of someone to think the world is interested in a half-dozen or eight or 10 of their kids.
The foundations of the world will be shaky until the moral props are restored.
So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.
This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit.
I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it.
Having chosen this foolishness, I was a free being. How could the world ever stop me, how could I betray myself, if I was not afraid?
Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like me, you want to see an end to poverty, you need to be in it for the long haul.
I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.
We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.
Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.
Every fight is do or die for me. I've come too far to start over. I'm on a destiny trip right now. I'm racing towards that heavyweight world championship.
The translucent life is very much about overflowing with a gift to the world, rather than being here to consume or to get something for yourself.
There are people all over the world who are willing to exploit others. You can't just point the finger at America
Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.
Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless
Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.
What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.
Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest
By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.
If you never try anything new, you'll miss many of the world's great disappointments.
The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances.
She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.
Remember, once more how our world should be. And please, don't forget, please, please don't forget.
As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future.
If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source: the corruption of young minds by violent ideology.
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.
I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide.
We learned that a product doesn't sell just because you're trying to do good in the world. You still have to have a healthy distribution, a good marketing strategy, and price the product properly.
By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.
A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.
Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.