World Quotes - Page 321

The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

We smile, because this is how we save the world.

The world is drowning in weirdness and lies......and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!

All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Everything today is "transient." Technology and its ability to empower actors large and small evolve so quickly that we have to get used to living in a world that exists in a more or less constant state of flux.

The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much the heart of the world they've created on film.

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

The artist’s memory is a dangerous, necessary thing. Never disavow what you see and remember-it’s your brilliant stock-in-trade: remembering, and making something out of it. Artists remember the world as it is, first, because you have to know what it is you’re reinventing; that’s a rule, perhaps the only one: being cognizant of your source material.

The supreme purpose of history is a better world.

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.

What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to think, and that is why people do so little of it.

For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across the eternal seas of space and time.

Where is peace to be found? The answer is surprising but clear. In weakness. Why there? Because in our weakness, our familiar ways of controlling and manipulating our world are being stripped away, and we are forced to let go from doing much, thinking much, and relying on our self-sufficiency. Right there where we are most vulnerable, the peace that is not of this world is mysteriously hidden.

I think the world of you...and you know what condition the world is in today.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.