World Quotes - Page 473

The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.

People seem to be losing their sense of boundaries more and more, what people are willing to put up on the internet, especially blogs. People seem to assume that only their friends are going to read it but anyone in the world could read it at any time.

The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.

Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.

I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.

Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.

Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.

Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse social crime than hunger.

In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.

The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world.

Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.

There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

...open-market democratic capitalism isn't the best system of government in the world, it just works the best.

If you have one volcano in the world, that one volcano puts out more carbon dioxide than everything man puts out.

Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction.

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.

The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.