World Quotes - Page 281

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.

Your soul is the whole world.

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

The world, an entity out of everything, was created by none of the gods or men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and reg- ularly becoming extinguished.

The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre.

This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.

Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.

If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world.

He found whole figures which represented a written word; but he never could manage to represent just the word he wanted - that word was 'eternity', and the Snow Queen had said, "If you can discover that figure, you shall be your own master, and I will make you a present of the whole world and a pair of new skates." But he could not find it out.

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

Every one of us lives in a world that is no larger and no smaller than our understanding.

I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.

A cigar makers organization once said that I was the most famous cigar smoker in the world. I dont know if thats true, but once while visiting Havana, I went to a cigar factory. There were four hundred people there rolling cigars, and when they saw me, they all stood up and applauded.

In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not have socially or politically, or of course economically, in the world at large.

And so [my brother] Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers. And, likewise, doubters and dissenters and perhaps Utopians. Father's rule had been 'Question everything, take nothing for granted,' and I never outlived it, and I would suggest it be made the motto of a world journalists' association.

Humans are the one species the world could do very well without.

Man lives in a world of meaning.

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces.

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.