World Quotes - Page 18

A man's world, but a white man's planet.

[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.

Online is online. It's a whole other world. It's not actually real life.

The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people.

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.

The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

I have learned that when you’re in the right you should fight the world.

My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.

If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.

We are indeed the light of the world-but only if our switch is turned on.

I travel, work, suffer my weak health, meet with a thousand difficulties, but all these are nothing, for this world is so small. To me, space is an imperceptible object, as I am accustomed to dwell in eternity.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)

When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.