World Quotes - Page 433

Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you can't really go backwards.

What most forms of Consequentialism cannot do is require us to act in such a way as to make the world worse, yet many of the objections to Consequentialism purport to show that Consequentialism requires us to make the world a stinking, bloody mess. The ubiquity of these kinds of arguments shows you just how unseriously many of the critics take Consequentialism.

You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing?

arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

We must not lose our trust in the power of truth. Everything is always changing in the world.

Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way.

It seems like the world is so fast to move its interest to someone else. When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work. I have admired what they began with and what they're doing now. And now I feel like there's such a weird pressure to find the new face. I don't get it at all. I want to see women evolve. I want to see a body of work. I want to see all of it.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.

A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome paper weight that's been shaken. There's a blizzard in my bubble. Everything in my world that was steady and sure and sturdy has been shaken out of place, and it's now drifting and swirling back down in a confetti of debris. (p30)

There's lots of interesting stuff happening in the world. Lots of good and bad things, and there's interest in music still, which there always will be, which is always a good thing.

When I leap, I briefly see the world as it is and as it should be.

In all my travels I have never seen the hospitality of San Francisco equalled anywhere in the world.

To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That's what I love doing.

The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Winning the World Cup was the worst thing that ever happened to the England team.

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as yet unknown are being fashioned, demand the elimination of a prodigious mass of noxious by-products which now contaminate the globe. The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.

The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.

I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.

you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?

If you go get a passport, it might encourage you to at least consider the world around you.