World Quotes - Page 307

When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'

By deliberately changing the internal image of reality, people can change the world.

That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.

Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.

Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.

It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

The world is a mirror representing the divine life.

The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as novel and charms as fresh as those with which it delighted, in the morning of history, the dwellers on the banks of the Ganges and Indus.

The quality of life in our world does not depend on the conflicts that arise, but on our response to them.

A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.

The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.

This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the most part "the free world" seems to be regarding it as merely normal.

May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be 'worldly'; nay, we even delight in not remaining 'in the world.'

Real contentment must come from within. You and I can not change or control the world around us, but we can change and control the world within us.

What? I bring joy to the world. I am filled with mirth and sunlight. Also, I am Batman.

Among the worlds 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.

The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.

In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.

The problem is that those of us sympathetic with the plight of indigenous people view them as quaint and colorful, but somehow reduced to margins of history as the real world [(our world)] moves on We will be known as an era in which we stood by and either actively endorsed or passively accepted the massive destruction of both biological and cultural diversity on the planet.

You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.