World Quotes - Page 336

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

There is terrible suffering in our world today. Tragic things happen to good people. God does not cause them, nor does He always prevent them. He does, however, strengthen us and bless us with His peace, through earnest prayer.

And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.

The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.

Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.

Our past as well as our future. It could have been completely destroyed when we were brought to the New World as slaves. They even took away our drums. And I don't want to talk about all those negative things going on. But its music is more present in our lives than ever. Blues, samba, calypso, reggae, jazz, salsa, Africa is everywhere.

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world — the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, the six systems of philosophy — have been defiled, like food that has been touched by the tongue, for they have been read or uttered by the tongue. Only one thing has not been defiled in this way, and that is Brahman. No one has ever been able to say what Brahman is.

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.

A world of abundance surrounds you, if only you will step up and claim it. Make life happen through you rather than letting it happen to you. It will make all the difference in the world.

Use your notebook to breathe in the world around you.

This is the whole secret of non-attachment: live in the world, but don't be of the world. Love people, but don't create attachments. Reflect people, reflect the beauties of the world - and there are so many. But don't cling. The clinging mind loses its mirrorhood. And mirrorhood is Buddhahood. To keep that quality of mirroring continuously fresh is to remain young, is to remain pure, is to remain innocent. Know, but don't create knowledge. Love, but don't create desire. Live, live beautifully, live utterly, abandon yourself in the moment. But don't look back. This is the art of non-attachment.

I know there is one kind of cinema that exists in the world, that is good or bad cinema.

We are taking a greater chance of having another crash at a time when the world is less capable of bearing the cost.

You have given me Your love, filling the world with Your gifts.

I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God.

Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?

There are always going to be jerks in the world . . . [but] there are more good people on this earth than bad people, and the good people watch out for each other and take care of each other.

A more just world is possible.

Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?

When families bring children into the world, train them in faith and sound values, and teach them to contribute to society, they become a blessing in our world.

To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o'er.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.