World Quotes - Page 425

The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.

If at last thou attain the desire of thy life, Cast the world aside, yea, abandon it!

All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.

They told me I would find it difficult to find work because of the way that I look and they weren't wrong. [laughs] I thought, "Well, I'll prove you wrong" because I genuinely believed that the world was a more diverse place than they perhaps viewed it to be.

I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That's even why I married her.

The desire to change the world is a tremendous advantage as you travel down the difficult path ahead because focusing on a lofty goal is more energizing and attracts more talent than simply making a buck.

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

Retreating from the world will not liberate you. Happiness is not found in a secluded forest hut or isolated cave. Enlightenment comes when you connect to the world. Only when you truly connect with everyone and everything else do you become Enlightened. Only by going deeply and fully into the world do you attain liberation.

"I am afraid that God has sent these men to lay waste the world".

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

Master said if you want to be happy no one in the world can take happiness from you; if you want to be unhappy, no one in the world can make you happy. So choose to be happy.

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.

Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Retailing has become fiercely competitive. Today there are many large global fashion companies who have opened up mono-brand stores in major cities around the world. When I first opened my boutique in New York, in 1985, there were almost no other European luxury brands present with their own stores. Now Fifth Avenue is packed with huge stores from major Italian and French labels.

You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women.