World Quotes - Page 399

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.

For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

A time will come when you're going to be numerous but your impact in the world will be like nothing

Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is only one kind of novel: a human attempt to transfer or convey some part or version of their world of noumenon to another’s world of noumenon.

Moments in time when the world is changing bring out the best and the worst in people.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.

The world is ruled by power and power is obtained by money.

If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.

It has to be understood that the world doesn't exist with people who are exactly like us.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Action is the 'bridge' between the inner world and the outer world.

To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences grits that smooth sliding fall, no recollection of disillusionment blurs that pure desire.

This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer.

Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless.

Your mind has enormous hidden dimensions. Open yourselves completely to whatever reactions and emotions the world evokes from time to time. Accept them all without any reservation or resentment. By assimilating everything and all, your mind grows deeper, stabler and more enriched.

The things that matter most in this world are those that carry no price tag, for they can neither be bought nor sold at any price.

The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore.

Take care of yourself mentally, physically, and spiritually so that you can take care of the world.

Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents.

... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.