World Quotes
Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world.
The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.
Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.
The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
This is our world and we need the same things to survive. If I'm making my life better and the circumstances of your life worse, that's terrible because in the end it will affect me, too.
I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.
In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world.
The Senate is the only show in the world where the cash customers have to sit in the balcony.
The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.
In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
Although I hold the highest civil honour in the world, I have always regarded my rank and title as a Past Grand Master of Masons the greatest honour that had ever come to me.
Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.
This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.
Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.
My wife is the sweetest, most tolerant, most beautiful woman in the world. This is a paid political announcement.
A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
The world, an entity out of everything, was created by none of the gods or men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and reg- ularly becoming extinguished.
Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.
The world of immediate experience the world in which we find ourselves living must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.
The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.
The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers, The water is held in its arms And the sky is held in the water. What is water, That pours silver, And can hold the sky?
You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own.
The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.
If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.
In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.
The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders.
In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline.
Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.
I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you.
Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.
