World Quotes - Page 306

Especially in the world of comedy, it feels like you have to be proactive, in terms of pitching and trying to sell and being a part of the creation of the stuff that you do.

Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

I do not expect anyone will ever have the opportunity of constructing another course like Cypress Point, as I do not suppose anywhere in the world is there such a glorious combination of rocky coast, sand dunes, pine woods and cypress trees.

It now appears that the world is filled with people who believe that everyone should be interested in everything they have to say about anything - people who tweet, you might call them. I find this so astonishing, my own hubris pales in comparison.

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

If there was a little more light and truth in the world through one human being, his life has had meaning.

The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.

Don't try to blame the rest of the world. The blame only lies with you. Recognize that immediately.

While there seem to be many things to manage in the world, the most important thing to manage is your consciousness.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

Mandela has played a crucial part in history. He's done some extraordinary things, not only for his country but also for the whole world.

Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed.

...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.

I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our world, at least to a certain depth.

There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won't enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external 'freedom' in the world won't liberate you, if you are chained inside. Let go. And you'll know Freedom.

God tells me to cover myself, to hide my beauty and to tell the world that I’m not here to please men with my body; I’m here to please God. God elevates the dignity of a woman’s body by commanding that it be respected and covered, shown only to the deserving - only to the man I marry.

If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.