World Quotes - Page 211

By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion

Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.

The future is female, so women are invited, as they do, to take responsability in the world of politics, in the economics, in art

Today I no longer need to change the world around me. I just need to change the way I see it.

Today Satan rules the world. The masses no longer believe in God. And, yes, Satan is in the Vatican.

The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.

That which is lacking in the present world is a profound knowledge of the nature of things.

The world is not always a kind place. That's something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it's something they really need our help to understand.

We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...

The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.

This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.

Resurrection does not simply spell the survival of the soul but requires the transformation of the world as we know it.

What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.

The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group.

It [9/11 event] was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of the American military establishment. But it was not meant to be argued with. It wasn't part of any negotiation. No message was intended with it. It spoke for itself, which is unusual.

I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as though it were some sort of sacred object.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

We-each of us-are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe. It is our true home, and thinking that this physical world is all that matters is like shutting oneself up in a small closet and imagining that there is nothing else out beyond it.