World Quotes - Page 323

Maybe the Snowy Heron is going to come off pretty badly when the planes come together. Maybe. But he's still proud and beautiful. His head is high, and he's got this sharp beak that's facing out to the world.He's okay for now.

We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic.

The only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best.

Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

The laws of this world are for children.

In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.

I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

Let us leave good sense behind like a hideous husk and let us hurl ourselves, like fruit spiced with pride, into the immense mouth and breast of the world! Let us feed the unknown, not from despair, but simply to enrich the unfathomable reservoirs of the Absurd!

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.

From what I hear is happening, young Indian boxers have started to do well on the world stage and started to gain the attention of the general audience.

The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world