World Quotes - Page 235

In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

A world without God cannot wait for us to choose the safe path. If we wait for someone else to take the risk, we risk that no one will ever act and that nothing will ever be accomplished.

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.

On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.

This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor - ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.

God himself must needs be traduced, if there is no unicorn in the world.

If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn't we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight?

Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.

The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

... the ecological problem of our times demands a radical reevaluation of how we see the entire world; it demands a different interpretation of matter and the world, a new attitude of humankind toward nature, and a new understanding of how we acquire and make use of our material goods.

The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane.

So often we give God a partial obedience. We do not dare to disobey, but we do not care to obey fully. So we compromise. We do some of what we should, thus removing the stigma of disobedience. But we refrain from the most difficult or objectionable or uncomfortable part, and thus try to get the best of both worlds.

The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you.

It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.

when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

I want to be the toughest photographer in the world.

It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin.

America is 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 96 percent of the world's hard drugs.