World Quotes - Page 142

Those who think to reach God by running away from the world, when and where do they expect to meet him? We are reaching him here in this very spot, now at this very moment.

At the end of our lives we hope we will look back and, like an incense stick completely burned away, will have poured forth all our fragrance into the world.

When you are a young person, the world is yours. You can do the impossible.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called ‘social democracy.’ . . . We are in a deadly race between politics and technology. . . . The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism.

The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.

An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening, and respect matter as much as his or her logic - probably more. The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say.

If you aren't just a little depressed, then you aren't paying very much attention to what's going on in the world.

You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.

The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.

I wish I knew how we achieve the goal of world peace. My bumper sticker reads 'Just Another Version of You.' The sooner we agree that we're just other versions of each other - we human beings - the sooner we will find some sense of world peace.

They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism.

Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.

Every human has a seed of greatness buried in a gift needed by the world.

With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.

Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.

The domination of the public way in which things have been interpreted has already decided upon even the possibilities of being attuned, that is, about the basic way in which Da-sein lets itself be affected by the world. The they prescribes that attunement, it determines what and how one "sees.

It is better to live in a world of poetic meaning rather than hardcore reality.

So anybody with any bit of intelligence has got to be pissed off because if they see how things are in the world they're not going to be happy with it.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.