World Quotes - Page 458

I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.

We do not have any respect, let alone reverence, for the world of nature because we do not have any respect, let alone reverence, for ourselves. It is because we cripple and mutilate ourselves that we cripple and mutilate everything else as well. Our contemporary crisis is really our own depravity writ large.

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

The stench of impurity before God and the angels is so great, that no stench in the world can equal it.

I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, then do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be.

Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that ours is the only world; there must be world after world unseen by us, in some region or dimension that we simply do not perceive. Even though I can't prove that, even though it isn't logical - I believe it.

The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.

I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still.

World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest sense,in its only sense, the patriotism of humans who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good.

The era of implementation has started. The world is now committed to universal treatment.

Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.

Learning about ourselves is rather inconvenient because it turns the world we live in upside down.

There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.

In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic.

When cars have the sensory systems around them, GPS intelligence, they're looking at the world not only in visual spectrum, but infrared, ultraviolet and everything else that's going on and they've got reaction times in microseconds. Not a tenth of a second. They're a hundred thousand times faster.

I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.

I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things.

We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.

Football is the best, is the biggest sport in the world.

It's dizzying to think how huge the world is, or to realize how tiny you are

Visualize a golden light within you and spread it out. First to those about you - your circle of friends and relatives - and then gradually to the world. Keep on visualizing God's golden light surrounding our earth.

We need to sacrifice something. And this is what I find lacking. We want to construct an image of ourselves as virtuous but we don't want to suffer for our beliefs. We want to change the world with a Facebook like. That's not how the world works.