World Quotes
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.
Not to say that you should be constantly trying to change the world, but I think it's important to know that whatever we do has an implication and has an effect, and because of that it is political.
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or good?
One individual cannot possible make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference - all the difference in the world!
Each mental act opens up a new dimension of actuality. In a manner of speaking, your slightest thought gives birth to worlds.
Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles
I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.
There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images.
Our freedom is under attack. Our economy is under water. The leading democrat is under investigation. And America is under the gun to lead the free world to protect our civilized way of life.
This is our greatest challenge: learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society and on the physical environment.
It's always a struggle. It's an uphill battle the whole time. But you know what? The rewards are so graet, I wouldn't trade it for the world.
To marry and have children is the ideal life for a woman. What career could ever be as fine? To give the world splendid men and women-isn't that the noblest thing a woman could possibly do?
Kids need to know they're the most important thing in the world to you, and if that means quitting your job to prove it, then you have to prove it.
I had the global outlook that I really wanted to capture the world. I would like the attention of the world at least and I wanted that.
I tend to think the world is a bit of a miserable place, so anyone who can add to people's optimistic, cheerful side is doing a good job, which is what I hope I'm doing.
Every act of kindness and compassion toward others gets multiplied when they, in turn, pass it on. One by one the world becomes a better place. Service is indeed the gift that keeps on giving.
This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower.
I have one message for young musicians around the world. Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.
You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
Color is life; for a world without color appears to us as dead. Colors are primordial ideas, the children of light.
Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to a form.
Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, And now the morn quite hides in smoke and haze; The place we occupy seems all the world.
The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.
There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause
if everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!
You never know how things will work out. After all the bad reasons in the world, some good came out.
The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.
Theoretical physicists live in a classical world, looking out into a quantum-mechanical world. The latter we describe only subjectively, in terms of procedures and results in our classical domain.
The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.
Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land.
Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.
A shaft of white light used properly can be far more effective than all the color in the world used indiscriminately.
