World Quotes - Page 279

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar.

We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false.

Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, but then once upon a time never comes again.

They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.

All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.

The masks we wear are simply veils that we have chosen to hide behind in order to get our way, or to demonstrate how we are reacting to the powers and forces that seem to influence us from the external world. They are part of our self image, and in some cases the mask is nothing more than a protective device, a defense mechanism.

The bigger the world economy, the more powerful its smallest player.

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.

I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I'm supposed to do.

People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.

Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue?

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk

The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.

Yeah. I wouldn't do it if it wasn't fun... We're showing people how, in a pretty crazy and whacked-out, dangerous world, you can still have fun.

The world is nothing but a big gimmick.

The world will not change until we do

That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.

You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world.

Panties aren't the greatest thing in the world, but they're next to them.