World Quotes - Page 300

The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel.

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the world within itself. A mirror of things, a mirror of facts. Each human being becomes a little universe within the universe!

Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be.

The Senate is the only show in the world where the cash customers have to sit in the balcony.

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

This is our world and we need the same things to survive. If I'm making my life better and the circumstances of your life worse, that's terrible because in the end it will affect me, too.

I just wanna kind of give the world something special.

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

Existence as entirety remains beyond any one meaning and it is the conscious presence of humanness in the world inasmuch as this is nonmeaning, having nothing to do other than be what it is, no longer able to go beyond itself or give itself some kind of meaning through action.

Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world.

Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.

The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star.

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?

Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

You can solve all the world's problems in a garden.

They said God was on high and he controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan. Well, if God controls the world, he controls Satan. For me, religion was full of misstatements and reaches of logic that I just couldn't agree with.

Love and serve the world through your work.

"All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity.

Your impact on the world is significant whether or not you are aware of it, and even whether or not you desire it.

I see the potential for a new world being born in front of me and all around me, and I feel the only way to bring that potential into being is to know myself.