World Quotes - Page 122

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

Happiness is the most important thing in the world, without it, you live a life of depression.

Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.

The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long way to go before we really reward people based on their own merit.

We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.

One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do.

The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.

There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.

Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

For a lot of companies, it's useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that. I personally believe it's better to shoot higher. You don't want to be looking at your competitors. You want to be looking at what's possible and how to make the world better.

The world sucks, people are not true

In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it's the fast fish which eats the slow fish.

Changing the world doesn't happen all at once. It isn't a big bang. It's an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny sparks. And some of those sparks will have to come from you.

When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.

Now the canvas is not just my country Pakistan, but now the canvas is the entire world. Now the canvas is the entire ummah (Muslim nation).

All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances.

Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own.

One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.

To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face.

We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others.

If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society.

We have more than enough resources in the world. The only thing we don't have is brains in Washington.

The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation as either inevitable or just constitute the continuing antinomy of the modern era, joined together in a dialectic which has far from reached its climax in the twentieth century.