World Quotes - Page 33

O this world is beautiful because of you! To love somebody means that we're closer to God.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass.

It is both the duty and responsibility of the world's fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

With the withering of the rose, and with each fallen petal, Allah is reminding us that everything here is passing away. He is reminding us that nothing in this world will remain, except for Allah.

Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and take them, without question, for the absolute truth.

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.

There are two things that if you do them you will attain the good of this world and the hereafter; [They are] that you bear what you dislike if it is beloved to Allah and you leave what you like if it is disliked by Allah.

The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.

To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.

So many people in the world would rather stay in a situation that's painful but familiar because they're comfortable with it. Not a lot of people have the strength or heart to realize when something's not good for them and to turn around and be alone.

Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

The reason I love my dog so much is because when I come home, he's the only one in the world who treats me like I'm the Beatles.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.