World Quotes - Page 298

Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening.

It's just so bizarre how in this world if you have asthma, you take asthma medication. If you have diabetes, you take diabetes medication. But as soon as you have to take medicine for your mind, it's such a stigma behind it.

Social entrepreneurs come from all levels of society and from communities in nearly every country of the world. They all share the same underlying drive and passion to see their ideas through. Many of them have had a huge effect on the world, yet most people have not even heard of them - a trend we hope to change!

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

I'm against the theory of the multinational corporations who say if you are against hunger you must be for GMO. That's wrong, there is plenty of natural, normal good food in the world to nourish the double of humanity. There is absolutely no justification to produce genetically modified food except the profit motive and the domination of the multinational corporations.

There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

If you do not speak to your teens about the meaning of human sexuality and love, the world will fill the void of your silence with a very contrary message.

I don't wish to inhabit the human world under false pretences.

Each mental act opens up a new dimension of actuality. In a manner of speaking, your slightest thought gives birth to worlds.

Time is all we have. One lifetime under this name to produce a body of work that says, This is how I saw the world. Your work is worthy of whatever time it takes.

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.

Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or good?

You can't be an environmentalist, you can't be an ocean steward without truly walking the walk and you can't walk the walk in the world of the future, the world ahead of us, the world of our children, not eating a plant-based diet.

The drive for progress doesn't wait for the external world to say "It's time to change."

If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

You don't have to start from scratch to have a massive impact on the world.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline.

One has to trust that God knows how to manage the world.