World Quotes - Page 345

The etiquette of intimacy is very different from the etiquette of formality, but manners are not just something to show off to the outside world. If you offend the head waiter, you can always go to another restaurant. If you offend the person you live with, it's very cumbersome to switch to a different family.

It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.

A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

Public influence is the real government of the world.

Seeing the world is a prerequisite to understanding one’s place in it.

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.

One dance had made me the most famous colored woman in the world.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge. For if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world, as evil spirits will have more knowledge, and consequently more power.

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.

A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it.

Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now.

The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.

To enjoy the world without judgment is what a realized life is like.

Influencers refuse to leave the world they way they found it. They leave a legacy.

More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.

God owns all the wealth in the world!

Yoga is about awakening. Yoga is about creating a life that brings more beauty and more love into the world.

There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction

I can offer you only: this world like a knife