World Quotes - Page 388

If more persons would get so enthused over their day's work that some one would have to remind them to go out to lunch there would be more happiness in the world and less indigestion.

When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.

God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!

There is a cyclone fence between ourselves and the slaughter and behind it we hover in a calm protected world like netted fish, exactly like netted fish. It is either the beginning or the end of the world, and the choice is ourselves or nothing.

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even

The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.

So here are reasons why I talk to strangers: because I never know what might happen, because the world is full of surprises; because the very thing I am most worried about might turn into the thing I need most.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.

. . . the world is filled with the kind of customers who deserve the care and attention I advocate, and I'd be willing to jump through hoops to win and keep them.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Canada entered World War I as a colony and came out a nation.

You can see the cruelest part of the world, the cruelest part. But then on the other side, you see the most beautiful part. Do you know? It's like you go from one extreme to the next. And they're both worth it because you wouldn't see the one without the other one. But that cruel part is damn cruel and you'll never forget it. But that heaven is heaven.

There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small, fragile-looking world just hanging against the blackness of space.

My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.

You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.

Many researchers do feel that humankind may have to face another Great Cleansing, such as the Great Flood of world mythology. Again, numerous UFO contactees and abductees feel that it is their mission to alert their fellow humans that some kind of apocalypse will soon be visited upon Earth.

My definition of confidence is how you feel about yourself, and not letting the external world define you.