World Quotes - Page 200

Talent is what drives this world ... Doesn’t matter how many satellites you f---ing stick in the air.

If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

We have to show the world that not all of us are like him. Otherwise, this will always be Hitler's Germany.

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

Through a painting, we can see the whole world.

There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.

There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness.

Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.

To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.

What time is it on the clock of the world?

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.

If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood which I felt I had to control, otherwise I might end up in the loony bin. But when I made my way in the world I wanted to indulge myself in my fantasies to the extent that I could afford.

The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.

[A] world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet. Not to have a national anthem would be logical.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.

With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.

Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs.

Love guides the stars towards each other, the world plan endures only through love.

The world needs people who save lives.

The world is a grindstone and life is your nose