World Quotes - Page 240

Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.

In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.

Those are fools however learned Who have not learned to walk with the world.

I made clothes because I was looking for something that didn't exist. I had to try to create my own world.

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event . . . we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off.

The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful.

The sobbing of the weak today is the sobbing of the victims of neoliberal policies. They consist of billions of people all over the world.

The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.

My inner world creates my outer world.

I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.

There are more people in the world who make things than there are people who think of things to make.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

I know that there'll be a continuation of making the world more accessible for people with disabilities.

Last night I fell asleep in a satellite dish. My dreams were broadcast all over the world.

I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit.

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world

At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.

God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It is not his greatest pleasure to show his sovereign power, or his inconceivable wisdom, but his immense goodness, to which he makes the other attributes subservient.

The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call matter is consciousness itself.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.