World Quotes - Page 199

Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world

I was quite happy in Arkhangelsk.Subsequently, I was sent to a village. I liked it in its own way because it sounded to me very much like the tradition of a hired man in any world-class poem. That's what I was, a hired man. I was working for a collective farm.

Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.

The best people in the world aren't those who never fail - but those who fail and learn something from it. I hope that your goal in life isn't to slide safely into death not having screwed up much.

One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.

Europeans not only colonized most of the world, they colonized information about the world.

Speak with the speech of the world; think with the thoughts of the few.

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor.

Music can't save the world, but can make one a little calmer.

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.

The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.

Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very idea of the world. They require a cosmological vision that saves the phenomenon 'world' itself, a move in soul that goes beyond measures of expediency to the archetypal source of our world's continuing peril: the fateful neglect, the repression, of the anima mundi.

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring.

The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.

Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.

The world doesn't pay you for what you know, it pays you for what you do.

The wisdom of the Holy Spirit is much greater than the wisdom of the entire world. Within the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, silence prevails; the wisdom of the world, however, goes astray into idle talk.

Now is a time for change, a time to become the greatest version of yourself. And a time to to make your grandest vision of the world .

Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world. And the biggest gas reserves in this hemisphere, the eighth in the world. Venezuela was a U.S. oil colony. All of our oil was going up to the north, and the gas was being used by the U.S. and not by us. Now we are diversifying. Our oil is helping the poor.