World Quotes - Page 206

Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War. This presents us with great challenges and many hard decisions.

Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world are you and I.

We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.

This perfume was not like any perfume known before. It was not a scent that made things smell better... it was completely new, capable of creating a whole world, a magical, rich world, and in an instant you forgot all the loathsomeness around you and felt so rich, so at ease, so free, so fine.

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

The best eraser in the world is a good night's sleep.

Maturity is the ability to live in someone else's world.

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world

Power is concentrated. The general policy is exactly the way that Adam Smith described it: it's designed for the benefit of its principal architects, the powerful. It serves "the vile maxim of the masters: all for ourselves and nothing for anyone else". Those are the basic rules of the world.

To accpet the world as boring or accpet oneself as boring? Which is really more agreeable? There's bound to be some amount of ambiguity and uncertainty.

It doesn't matter if the world is pulling you down. With Christ you have everything.

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

Your Imagination is YOU yourself, and the world as your Imagination sees it is the real world.

The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalised.

I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.

Our journey of discipleship is not a dash around the track, nor is it fully comparable to a lengthy marathon. In truth, it is a lifelong migration toward a more celestial world.

The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.

Change your mental attitude, & the World around you will change accordingly

The person who sows a single beautiful thought in the mind of another, renders the world a greater service than that rendered by all the faultfinders combined.

So we are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy to avoid that fate. But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

Heaven is important, but its not the end of the world.