World Quotes - Page 467

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.

I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.

To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren't necessarily meant for you to hear--because how else do you find out about the world?

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is.

The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.

The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world.

Having money is just the best thing in the world.

I feel like I could eat the world raw.

Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him.

I'm willing to go wherever with this because music is everything to me. This is my world and how I see it. My music speaks for me in a way that's relatable and truthful.

The current business model for language education is the student pays — in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem with this business model is that 95 percent of the world’s population doesn’t have $500.

I am my world.

Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.

There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom.

That's our mirror. Every dip, every crash, every bubble that's burst, a testament to our brilliant stupidity. This one gave us the railroads. This one the Internet. This one the slave trade. And if we hope to do anything about saving the environment, or getting to other worlds, we'll need a bubble for that too. Everything I've ever done in my life worth anything has been done in a bubble: in a state of extreme hope and trust and stupidity.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

You are the power in your world! You get to have whatever you choose to think!

If I want to believe that life is lonely and that nobody loves me, then that is what I will find in my world.

I've signed a contract with the Dutch national team until 2006. So I can win the World Cup not once but twice.

How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world

Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.

[My subjects] look lost because that is how I see life. I think we are all a bit lost, lost in a world we can't understand.

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.