World Quotes - Page 348

What we are learning around the world is that if women are healthy and educated, their families will flourish. If women are free from violence, their families will flourish. If women have a chance to work and earn as full and equal partners in society, their families will flourish. And when families flourish, communities and nations do as well.

What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.

Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.

There is nothing permanent in the world except change.

There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.

The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

I want to find the best opportunity to become the best in the world.

Yes, it's a competitive world, but where is your heart?

If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.

Color is the first revelation of the world.

Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.

The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.

If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.

What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!

That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.

Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country. It’s ruining our world.

Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold. But if the physical makeup of our world would have been different or is to become different from what it is now, some other commodity would have become or might become money. The market will decide.

What is the difference between a 2°C world and a 4°C world? Human civilisation!

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.