World Quotes - Page 326

Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

I remember the initial genesis quite clearly. My interest in dreams comes from this notion of realizing that when you dream you create the world that you are perceiving, and I thought that feedback loop was pretty amazing.

As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.

If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.

We must recognize that we are living in an imperfect world in which human and superhuman forces of evil are at work and so long as those forces affect the political behaviour of mankind there can be no hope of abiding peace.

You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.

When we clean up after ourselves, we have nothing to blame. When we begin to live our lives in that way, cleaning up after ourselves, what is left is further vision and further openness, which leads to cleaning up the rest of the world.

The world is getting very much more competitive.

In the 1930s, there was a stretch where you could borrow more against the real estate than you could sell it for. I think that's what's going on in today's private-equity world.

Whenever anything nice happens in the world I always expect something appalling to happen immediately afterwards.

I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.

What if everyone in the whole world suddenly decided to run away from his problems?" "Well, at least we'd all be running in the same direction!

I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

The world consisted of predators and prey. You were either hunting or running.

Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.

Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death.

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

The world becomes more rewarding when you let yourself look beyond what you're searching for.

The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.

As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life.

I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?

Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.