World Quotes - Page 390

Bob Riley, a kind soul who “treads lightly in this world,” is in the 22nd year of a federal life without parole LSD sentence.

For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.

In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.

I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.

For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.

It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.

In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.

It doesn't matter how much you make, what matters is what you become. Stay hungry.. Learn.. you'll become world-class

If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.

Forget college, forget everything else, just educate yourself, your world around you, everything around you.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?

It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world

Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

Let us then remember the dead-and all wars-gratefully. And let us hope that because of them we may become a touch better, a thimbleful wiser, and a handshake more tolerant of this changing world they did not live to see.

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

This world is too peaceful, too acquiescent, too tame. It is a circumcised world. Nay! - a castrated world! It must be made fiercer, before it can become grander and better and - more natural.

Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.

The world is full of horrible things.