World Quotes - Page 313

Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom.

It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world.

You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.

I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me.

Holiness is not reserved for a small number of exceptional persons. It is for everyone. It is the Lord who brings us to holiness when we are willing to collaborate in the salvation of the world for the glory of God, despite our sin and our sometimes rebellious temperament.

God no longer simply stands before us as the One who is totally Other. He is within us, and we are in him. His dynamic enters into us and then seeks to spread outward to others until it fills the world, so that his love can truly become the dominant measure of the world.

I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.

I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm gonna dive in and find as many fish as I can and catch them all. I love music.

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

The world is too full of information.

I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

The world is like a mirror; if you smile at it, it smiles at you. I love to smile, and so in general, I definitely receive smiles in return.

There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.

When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become more adventurous.

We are already seeing a degree of instability in the world because Obama seems to have consciously wanted to step back. Donald Trump is going to be "Obama squared," a more extreme version of the same thing.

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.

I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.

Open your eyes! The world is still intact; it is as pristine as it was on the first day, as fresh as milk!

It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.

Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it.

It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything else in a few synaptic steps.