World Quotes - Page 288

Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.

And part of growin’ up is learnin’ to see the world through other men’s eyes.

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.

People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.

[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!

You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.

We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it.

The world needs demonstration more than it needs teaching.

The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.

The Russians have turned out to be the largest divided nation in the world nowadays. Is that not a problem?

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it.

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.

Frank Zappa was one of the gods of the Czech underground, I thought of him as a friend. Whenever I feel like escaping from the world of the Presidency, I think of him.

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

When you see that any scholar loves the world, then his scholarship is in doubt.

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.

As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs.

The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King of England, the Kaiser and the Tsar married Queen Victoria's granddaughter. And that triggered Communism in Russia and Fascism in Germany and led to the Second World War.

A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for; there is all the difference in the world.