World Quotes - Page 441

The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible

In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is

And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.

One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.

The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.

When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.

'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV.

It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.

We treat this world of ours as though we have a spare in the trunk.

When we cannot look around and explain anything we are the quantum world.

Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live perfectly well in Chechnya.

She was my sacred angel that I could never violate. Reira was my sanctuary. I needed something solid like that in this dirty, disappointing world.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

It gives me such hope that each one of us can contribute to make this world a better place.

If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.

Whenever, in any century, whether in a single heart or in a company of believers, there has been a fresh effusion of the Spirit, there has followed inevitably a fresh endeavor in the work of evangelizing the world.

Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again.

Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.

Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.