World Quotes - Page 158

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The world is only a mirror. You will only see in the world what you're prepared to see in yourself-nothing more and nothing less.

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. This creed is somewhat short, but it is long enough for this life, strong enough for this world. If there is another world, when we get there we can make another creed.

The way we describe our world shows how we think of our world. How we think of our world governs how we interpret our world. How we interpret our world directs how we participate in the world. How we participate in the world shapes the world.

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.

For it was thy sin, and the sin of all the world, that lay upon our Redeemer, and his sacrifice and satisfaction is sufficient for all, and the fruits of it are offered to one as well as another, but it is true that it was never the intent of his mind to pardon and save any that would not by faith and repentance be converted.

We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.

The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

The fragrance of the heart is made up of the qualities and virtues of our spirit. Most of us have learned how to keep our heart closed in a world that would trample all over us if we let it. Being open hearted today seems to require tremendous courage.

I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.

Never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope.

The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens to be. Such an artist, we may imagine, spends a great deal of time doing nothing but looking, both around him and inside him.

Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.

When someone comes along later and tries to preach the Gospel to them because they're living in the world, they won't listen.

The US is not a superpower. The US is a financially dependent country that foreign lenders can close down at will. Washington still hasn’t learned this. American hubris can lead the administration and Congress into a bailout solution that the rest of the world, which has to finance it, might not accept.

Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world?

All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

We want to see our lives dramatized on the screen as we are living it, the same as other people, the world over.

Democracy should be nurtured and sustained in Nigeria and in our part of the world

I want a better world, but also a realistic world. We can only create a better world by becoming realistic.

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all.

Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.