World Quotes - Page 178

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

To successfully respond to the myriad of changes that shake the world, transformation into a new style of management is required. The route to take is what I call profound knowledge, knowledge for leadership of transformation.

I am not an ape, I am a man. The world has been created by God. Man has been created by God. It is not possible for man to understand God - God understands God. Man is God and therefore understands God. I am God. I am a man. I am good and not a beast. I am an animal with reason. I have flesh, I *am* flesh, I am not descended from flesh. Flesh is created by God. I am God. I am God. I am God.

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.

Life in this fallen world is to a great degree meaningless, our aspirations are constantly being frustrated, and sometimes the respectable people are oppressive and bigoted. And yet there is a Good that will triumph over Evil in the end. From a Christian perspective the problem with both kinds of stories is that they tend to blame problems on things besides sin and identify salvation in things besides God — and therefore are ultimately too simplistic.

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

You must know that you are worth much to me whether you accomplish anything or not. Even if you are rejected in the world's eyes, you are valuable to me.

Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.

It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.

One can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, [so] they are told that bringing up children is their divine mission. But the way things are in the world, bringing up children has a great deal in common with washing up saucepans.

I wanted to be a veterinarian. I adored animals, raised everything in the world and decided that was going to be what I was going to do. But I could sing.

We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are born into a disordered world, into a family we did not choose, into circumstances we would have had somewhat improved, and we are even called by a name we did not select. (40)

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.

It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

Even when I was down, I treated myself as a star and eventually the world would catch up.

There’s nothing left of me. I’m like a ruby held up to the sunrise. Is it still a stone, or a world made of redness? It has no resistance to sunlight.

Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is.

Existing economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real world.

I'm sitting on top of the world, and I've got hemorrhoids.

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

Once again, the 90/10 rule of money applies - 10% of the borrowers in the world use debt to get richer - 90% use debt to get poorer.