World Quotes - Page 445

The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.

At the end of the rainbow waited the pot of gold. But rainbows were made of faint and fragile gossamer-and gold weighed a ton-and since the world began, gold was the reason to do most anything.

I think that I'm coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.

Ultimately, Monsieur, we must go to God per infamiam et bonam famam [whether spoken of well or ill], and His Divine Goodness is merciful to us when it pleases Him to allow us to encounter blame and public contempt. I am sure you have borne patiently the embarrassment you experienced because of what has happened. If the glory of the world is nothing but smoke, the contrary is a solid good, when it is accepted in the right way. I hope that great good will come to us from this humiliation.

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.

The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

Letting the Bible speak for itself, that is, letting it speak in its own terms, includes letting the Bible speak from within its own worldview rather than merely our own.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world

We're still eating the leftovers of World War II.

Nothing is sadder than the consequences of having worldly standards without worldly means.

Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.

There are only five top models in the world: Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington and Claudia Schiffer.

It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.

I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love for and fascination with pictures.

The Christmas tree is a symbol of love, not money. There's a kind of glory to them when they're all lit up that exceeds anything all the money in the world could buy.