World Quotes - Page 167

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.

There is so much in the world to hate, why hate yourself?

If the will did not exist, neither would there be that centre of the world, which we call the I.

I want to know why, if men rule the world, they don't stop wearing neckties.

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

I was brought up Catholic. Then I had a joint and looked at the world differently.

If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.

In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically] some thing entirely new into the world.

Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.

We go through transformations when we are dealing with this world (spirit world). Go out and find whatever makes your spirit at peace.

And whatever the form of your own resurrection, you will arise, driven not by the Great Search, but by your own Great Duty, your limitless Dharma, the manifestation of your own highest potentials, and the world will begin to change because of you. And you will never flinch, and you will never fail in that great Duty, and you will never turn away, because simple, ever-present awareness will be with you now and forever, even unto the end of the worlds, because now and forever and endlessly forever, there is only Spirit, only intrinsic awareness of just this, and nothing more.

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.

You stop viewing yourself as being "pushed around" by the world when you realize that only you can "push" yourself. To quote Buddha: "Nothing is upsetting you. You get upset because you are upsettable."

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.

If you want to meet the needs of the poor in this world, there is no better place to start than by preaching the Gospel.

The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves.

The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.

Its been a strange day - a day when I thought I was on top of the world, planning my life. I planned all of my courses for the rest of the semester at Smith, and talked to my advisor about honoring in History.

All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here.

Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other---and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.

I was for some time quite beside myself and could not believe that Providence could have required the presence of this indispensable man in the other world so soon.

Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world.