World Quotes - Page 337

A comedian is someone who tells the truth. Truth is the set of all jokes told by all comedians in the world.

Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.

Love deems this world worth rescuing.

Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

The photographs of one dead terrorist mastermind carry no real news or information about the nature or horror of war. They just create sensation instead of deeper understanding.

Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession.

We're the only nation in the world where most of our poor people are fat.

It used to be widely held that evil was incompatible with the existence of God: that no possible world contained both God and evil. So far as I am able tell, this thesis is no longer defended

Your perception of the world around you is not necessarily the same as what is actually occurring.

God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God could not have created a world in which people had genuine freedom and yet there was no potentiality for sin, because our freedom includes the possibility of sin within its own meaning.

Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?

Nobody else can really begin to sort out for you what to accept and what to reject in terms of what wakes you up and what makes you fall asleep. No one else can really sort out for you what to accept - what opens up your world - and what to reject - what seems to keep you going round and round in some kind of repetitive misery.

When you know the language of love,it's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you.

It is confirmation to me that beyond the material world of cause and effect, there is a dimension of spirit waiting for our recognition. We see such a small piece of all the wonder surrounding us.

In today's world, working for yourself is actually the safer route, and working for a corporation has become the riskier proposition.

There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some sort of drone instrument, and there's always percussion.

I think the world is really small today, and fashion, from that end of it, it's instantaneous everywhere.

The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.

We`re putting ourselves - we`re basically double taxing made in America products. And so what we`re saying is let`s equalize this so that we`re on a level playing field, so that American-made goods and services are on a level playing field with the rest of the world.

In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we've undertaken in the last century.

What saved the economy, and the New Deal, was the enormous public works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy’s needs.

I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.

We will see the presence of angels and we will see an intensification of miracles around the world.

If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?