World Quotes - Page 404

Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.

We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of course wonder is costly. You couldn't incorporate it into a modern state, beacuse it is the antithesis of the anxiously worshiped security which is what a modern state is asked to give. Wonder is marvellous but it is also cruel, cruel, cruel. It is undemocratic, discriminatory and pitiless.

Snow has turned the world into a cemetery. But the world already was a cemetery and the snow has only come to announce it.

The people are craving for a better world. Let us mobilize them as co-workers for a better world.

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.

I've traveled all over the world and America is the easiest place to get rich.

Doing more with less, is a crucial principle to learn; especially if you're going to be in business in this rapidly changing world.

The only reason Christ submitted himself to the horrendous experience of bearing the sins of the entire world is because his death provided the only way for reconciliation with God.

If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.

There's no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.

If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.

These two opposed forms of social organization, the modern state and the market, have evolved together through recent centuries, and their mutual interactions have become increasingly crucial to the character and dynamics of international relations in our world.

The parallel existence and mutual interaction of "state" and "market" in the modern world create "political economy"; without both state and market there could be no political economy.

Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way?

In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia.

I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence and then never produced it. Then Tony Blair produced a document of seventy paragraphs, but only the last nine referred to the World Trade Center, and they were not convincing. So we have a little problem here: If they're guilty, where is the evidence? And if we can't hear the evidence, why are we going to war?

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.

If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.

In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain.