World Quotes - Page 379

There are nice things in the world - and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked.

We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved.

Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.

The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these, and to such like Questions.

No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.

Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.

The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome.

Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge.

I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act!

The love of a single heart can make a world of difference.

A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.

The World Is Not Enough

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states.

I'm in my dream world.

Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.

If we're talking about healthcare lets talk about a healthy diet. If there is anything better in the world in dealing with a healthcare problem it's prevention! We CAN afford prevention!

No one can save me. No one can live my life for me. It is mine for better or for worse. If I am wise, I shall begin to-day by the simplest and most natural of all processes to build my own truer and better world from within.

It's nice to wear a suit once in a while. It can restrict some body movement, but it makes me feel as though I'm part of society. I feel a sense of security because I've conformed to the standards of the rest of the world.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people — eternal life.

Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed!

At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Lose yourself in it, and you are free.

The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity.