World Quotes - Page 12

Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.

If I had one wish I would ask for a big enough ass for the whole world to kiss.

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

I know that I cannot change the entire world, but I've always believed I can at least affect change in my world.

A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.

We are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We make friendship with woman and the lineage continued because of woman. When one woman dies, we take another one, we are bound with the world through woman. Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings? The woman is born from woman; there is none without her. Only the One True Lord is without woman

And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while

A thousand of old man are just able to dream, but a young man is able to change the world!

They say I'm difficult, so to put it simply....tell the world I never cared it was against me

Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin... The program for this evening is not new. You've seen this entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death. You might recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?

The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.

We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it and why was I not informed of the rules and regulations but just thrust into the ranks as if I had been bought by a peddling shanghaier of human beings? How did I get involved in this big enterprise called actuality? Why should I be involved? Isn't it a matter of choice? And if I am compelled to be involved, where is the manager—I have something to say about this. Is there no manager? To whom shall I make my complaint?

Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.

Islam is not a set of rules. It’s a way of seeing life and the world.

The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.