World Quotes - Page 382

It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

We must not forget that … monetary policy all over the world has followed the advice of the stabilizers. It is high time that their influence, which has already done harm enough, should be overthrown.

The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) that the world most needs to have done....the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet

The Rothschilds have conquered the world more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Caesars before.

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.

The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.

Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The judgment of the word is true, the judgment in itself is void.... Only he who is a party can really judge, but as a party he cannot judge. Hence it follows that there is no possibility of judgment in the world, only a glimmer of it.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with.

I see the experience of pictures as a kind of cycle, a kind of circular motion in which you're in the world, then you enter the picture and you're in a different world (it's not the same as the one you live in, but recognizable as one you might live in). And then you're returned to your world with an enlarged sense of its possibilities.

The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.

There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.

Each of us carries within us a worldview, a set of assumptions about how the world works - what some call a paradigm - that forms the very questions we allow ourselves to ask, and determines our view of future possibilities.

The spirit that I am advocating is reframing how we view the world, and shifting from the negativity of lack and "not enough" to the positive frame of aligning with Nature.

America's egalitarian mandate reflects the liberality of the creator, and thus countermands, by divine witness, all feudal and aristocratic structures. It also parallels the Jewish concept of repair the world, or Tikkun ha'olam, which holds that the human spirit is in partnership with God to help finish the work of creation.

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

This bank-note world.

There aint any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.