World Quotes - Page 406

Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

What I used to do with a passion, foolishly and vainly imagining I would change the world for the better, I no longer tolerate in myself or anyone else. But draw, always draw - and WRITE.

I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.

Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.

I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing.

Photography, to me, is the dewdrop that reflects my inner and outer worlds simultaneously.

I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.

A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.

In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive awareness of oneself as potentially exposed to danger by the simple fact of being visible to others. The obvious defence against such a danger is to make oneself invisible in one way or another.

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

Very little in this world makes sense.

I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.

It is a pity that Elizabeth and I cannot marry each other. Our children would have gained mastery over the whole world.

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world

Around the world, we can see the results of exploitation which destroys much without taking future generations into account. Today, all men have a duty to show themselves worthy of the mission given them by the Creator by ensuring the safekeeping of that creation.

Dear young people, pray with me for peace in the world.

The Cross is the Word through which God has responded to evil in the world.

The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather, requires it.

The Christian family is missionary: it announces the love of God to the world.

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.

I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.