World Quotes - Page 273

To me, the best zombie movies aren’t the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics. Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are, they make us question our station in society… and our society’s station in the world. They show us gore and violence and all that cool stuff too… but there’s always an undercurrent of social commentary and thoughtfulness.

to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down

One of the most important results you can bring into the world is the you that you really want to be.

Night conceals a world but reveals a universe.

See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates.

I think we're just going to have to live with the microcosm in the electronic world of the kind of things that we might see in the physical world.

We must move beyond an anemic view of our faith as something only personal and private, with no public dimension, and instead see it as the source of power that can change the world.

The world has changed a great deal from when I began 50 years ago. I was very fortunate. There were a lot of opportunities that perhaps don't exist today.

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

The Vagabond life is the logical life to lead if one seeks the intimate knowledge of the world we were seeking.

No woman has ever stepped on Little America - and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.

I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

Darwinian evolution is unscientific, unobservable, unbelievable, but understandable in a world that hates God.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

Wealth, women and wine can make anything happen in this world!

As I see our world, I have never seen greater confusion, greater loss of meaning, greater uncertainty, and greater fear of what looms in front of us. Politics has gotten out of control everywhere. Nobody sees a mascot or a leader, and everyone wants to know what really lies ahead here.

Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in

The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

When you leave this world, will you be known as one who accumulated treasures on earth that you couldn't keep? Or will you be recognized as one who invested treasures in heaven that you couldn't lose?

The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]

It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.