World Quotes - Page 190

London is the clearing-house of the world.

I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it . Because there is, of course, always the desire, the hope, that they are not two separate worlds, sound and silence, but that they become each other, that only our hearing fails.

In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up, I-can-see you-in-the-face sugar. They're eating whole-wheat bread. They're eating ancient grains. They're eating black beans. That stuff is horrible.

I feel I can fit with any player in the world.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world.

Toleration made the world anti-Christian.

Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory.

Honestly, the world can be a dark enough place. Light it up.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return to Western culture after time in desert, mountain or forest, I discover how we have filled our world with a multiplicity of noises, a symphony of forgetfulness that keeps our won thoughts and realizations, feelings and intuitions out of audible range.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

The Mayans have predicted the world is supposed to end on December 21. If the world doesn't end on December 21, you can bet the next day the malls will be overrun with Mayans trying to buy last-minute gifts.

Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.

Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.

After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

Who’s to say what’s impossible? Well they forgot this world keeps spinning. And with each new day, I can feel a change in everything.

When you talk about the world's greatest entertainer you have to say Al Jolson because there was no one like him. Only Judy Garland and perhaps Frank Sinatra got anywhere near him!

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.

Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.

But as the world turns I learned life is hell, Livin' in the world no different from a cell...

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.