World Quotes - Page 47

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

The minute I leave my house - that is where I feel safe - I'm immediately in the jungle. The key is to survive through the cold world.

You can't get angry just because you can't control the world as you please.

That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.

The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.

If the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress?

I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.

Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had.

Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.

It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence.

A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage . . . . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society.

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.

The country which is in advance of the rest of the world in chemistry will also be foremost in wealth and in general prosperity.

The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world.

Kill Japs, kill Japs, kill more Japs!

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

We see the world in terms of our theories.

In the 24 hours since this time yesterday, over 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed in our world. Fully 13 million tons of toxic chemicals have been released into our environment. Over 45,000 people have died from starvation, 38,000 of them children. And more than 130 plant and animal species have been driven to extinction by the actions of humans. And all this just since yesterday.

The world doesn't change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.

To move the world we must move ourselves.

Nothing in the world glorifies God so much as simple rest of faith in what God’s Word says.

Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. - Drizzt Do'Urden

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life.