World Quotes - Page 256

Because the region of the Celestial World is of so great and such incredible magnitude as aforesaid, and since in what has gone before it was at least generally demonstrated that this comet continued within the limits of the space of the Aether, it seems that the complete explanation of the whole matter is not given unless we are also informed within narrower limits in what part of the widest Aether, and next to which orbs of the Planets [the comet] traces its path, and by what course it accomplishes this.

Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make good people good; it makes dead people alive. That's the difference between the gospel of Jesus Christ and every other world religion. All the others exhort their followers to save themselves by being good, by conforming their lives to whatever their worshiped deity is. But the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.

There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.

Never has our nation , or our world, stood on the precipice of adversity in such dire need of men answering the cry to rule well.

To the extent that this world surrenders its richness and diversity, it surrenders its poetry; to the extent that it relinquishes its capacity to surprise, it relinquishes its music; to the extent that it loses its ability to tolerate ridiculous and even dangerous exceptions, it loses its grace.

When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world.

Grant me paradise in this world; I'm not so sure I'll reach it in the next.

What I experienced with the bears where I discovered my true nature within myself, was not able to be discovered or experienced in this world in society.

Just knowing you exist changed the world for me.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.

I am really the most controversial artist in the world.

Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.

The world's thy ship and not thy home.

The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.

Despite the fact that I have a good-size pair of breasts... in Lois & Clark, I have the opportunity to show the world they're not my only attribute.

All you have to do is believe, baby, believe you're the best in the world and you'll get here.

Most of us suffer from a kind of myopia. We see only the things that fit in with our beliefs about the world.

It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world.

Let us make our hearts as big as an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world and see it only as a picture. We can then enjoy the world without being in any way affected by it.

Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.