World Quotes - Page 35

I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy.

We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.

We must believe in the power and strength of our words. Our words can change the world.

A world so hateful some would rather die than be who they are.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

Even if the whole world turns their back on you, you will always have yourself.

We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.

Little world, full of little people shouting for recognition, screaming for love, Rolling world, teeming with millions, carousel of the hungry, Is there food enough? Wheat and corn will not do. The fat are the hungriest of all, the skinny the most silent.

Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget.

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?

When you make peace with yourself, the world will mirror back that same level of peace.

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.

I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world.

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

You weren’t world-class when Arsenal signed you.

Are there no more worlds that I might conquer?

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.

The world exists for the sake of kindness.

As you are, so is the world.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.