World Quotes - Page 140

Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.

When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I'm actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism.

It is our duty to make this world a better place for women.

What this world needs is a few more Rednecks.

What can you do when you don't fit in? What can you do when life seems to be passing you by?" "Follow me. I want to show you something. See the horizon over there? See how big this world is? See how much room there is for everybody? Have you ever seen any other worlds?" "No." "As far as you know, this is the only world there is, right?" "Right." "There are no other worlds for you to live in, right?" "Right." "You were born to live in this world, right?" "Right." "WELL LIVE IN IT THEN! Five cents please.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon.

What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.

Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel. The gospel is the life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than a diamond. It's depths man will never exhaust.

Because simplicity isn't the greatest thing in the world, but love.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

The moment one abandons the idea that he was born to discover what is right and enforce it upon the rest of the world, he begins to feel an increasing disposition to let others alone and to refrain even from retaliation or resistance except in those emergencies which immediately and imperatively require it.

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.

Right now I would rank Norway as the largest country in the world, I have never seen anything like it

Dedicate the precious days of your lives to the betterment of the world

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.

Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.

There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant to use as a comparison then nothing seems strange.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.

The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges : the pox and Christianity.

Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

The world doesn’t need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond.