World Quotes - Page 481

When I could no longer cling to my normal supports I discovered that true support and real safety lie far beyond the structures of our world.

Be sure that you make a difference in the world.

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.

So to get back to being intimidated, yes, you get intimidated when you're on the runway with Naomi Campbell, who is the best runway model in the world.

Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.

It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.

I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness.

All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.

It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.

In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.

Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.

How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.

You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.

I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me.

The first world we find ourselves in is a family that is not of our choosing.

Most of us want to live in harmony and peace and be good to others. Right now, however, the world is in a very turbulent time, and our leadership has gone crazy.

Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did.

Brynjolfsson and McAfee take us on a whirlwind tour of innovators and innovations around the world. But this isn't just casual sightseeing. Along the way, they describe how these technological wonders came to be, why they are important, and where they are headed.

I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page or deals with the horrors unnameable and unaccountable that leer down from the external universes.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

Gerald Ford was unknown throughout America. Now he's unknown throughout the world.