World Quotes - Page 259

Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?

The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.

To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

Through adoration, the Christian mysteriously contributes to the radical transformation of the world and to the sowing of the Gospel. Anyone who prays to the Savior draws the whole world with him and raises it to God. Those who stand before the Lord are therefore fulfilling an eminent service. They are presenting to Christ all those who do not know him or are far from him: they keep watch in his presence on their behalf.

Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.

To offer women something that feels more about investing in something and less about being disposable is a complete corrective to the world we live in

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

Distribution may not matter in fictional worlds, but it matters in most. The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon Valley, where engineers are biased toward building cool stuff rather than selling it. But customers will not come just because you build it. You have to make this happen, and it's harder than it looks.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

Epidemics on the other side of the world are a threat to us all. No epidemic is just local.

I regard physics as that subset of magic that works fairly reliably. I regard magick, in the traditional sense, as a kind of physics that we strive to understand and render more reliable. So it all comes down to the same thing, a quest to understand and manipulate the world with a self-consistent and coherent theory .

Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.

At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.

Muslims want the whole world to be Muslim. Christians want the whole world to be Christian. Catholics, Protestants, Mormons. They're all the same. Far out, right? Everyone wants the world to be like them.

It is interesting to note that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the same inputs have completely different outputs.

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to adapt to the world of oppression.

A responsible warrior is not someone who takes the weight of the world on his shoulders, but someone who has learned to deal with the challenges of the moment.

From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: A social security number, a gender, a race, a profession or an I.Q. I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in, rather than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies? Would we still be able to exist if we were authentically un-contained?

Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches.

A resolute leader who collects ten thousand adventurers about him can do as he pleases. Were the whole world a single Imperium, it would thereby become merely the maximum conceivable field for the exploits of such conquering heroes.

I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.