World Quotes - Page 296

The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.

In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.

Without love, the world itself would not survive.

I don't want to go crazy pretending to be someone all the time. But at the same time, if I have the ability to influence people, and we have X amount of energy in the day, it's not even our option anymore - it's our duty to do something positive in the world.

My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master.

God's sacred intent for you and for me is nothing short of absolute abandonment to Jesus, entire separation from the pollution of the world, and ardent worship of our King with every breath we take.

I will fly around the world doing good for the environment.

The world doesn´t believe the Bible, Christians don´t obey the Bible.

I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.

An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.

The drive . . . is to create a one world government ... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope . . . .

You want a better, more fraternal, more just world? Well then, start building it: Who is stopping you? Build it inside yourself and around you, build it with those who want it. Build it small, and it will grow.

I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Every objet in the world promises satisfaction, but it never gives satisfaction -it only promises.

I often quote an African proverb that says: "The world is not ours, the earth is not ours, It's a treasure we hold in trust for future generations." And I often hope we will be worthy of that trust.

Maybe there is no peace in this world. I don't know ... But I know as long as we live we must stay true to ourselves.

And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.

I'm trying to change the world.

There is no place in this world warmer than our native land.

There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)

Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it--unable quite to let each other go.

Meaning and purpose come not from accomplishing great things in the world, but simply from loving those who are right in front of you, doing all you can with what you have, in the time you have, in the place where you are.

Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.