World Quotes - Page 491

God is calling you to change the world one life at a time and one small step at a time. Begin today where you are.

The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.

This world without a leopard…I mean, who would want to be here?!

Who has created more peace in the world, the Peace Corps or the Marine Corps?

I can't think of a greater single vehicle to goodness and a better world than if everyone battled their own natures

This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.

Nowadays, hoy en día, with our world full of war and violence and lack of love, a world full of greed, a world of domination, grasping power, venal stupidity, real evil, don’t get me started, it’s good to know that a conversation about tacos will always engender a sense of comfort and happiness. If only we could sit down at a big round world table and eat tacos in a spirit of love we might begin to work on world peace!

The world is a navy in an empty ocean.

The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector.

All experiences are either positive for your brain or negative. If you maximize the positive ones, you are shaping the brain you want to being you the world you want.

The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment.

Seekers are offered clues all the time from the world of spirit. Ordinary people call these clues coincidences

My first decade of living in a metropolis was like, I was a people watcher. It meant the world to me to talk to strangers. I got excited about the fifth time I'd see the same person in the same bodega. I loved getting to know a certain clerk or barista. It took on a whole big meaning for me because of that atomization that suburban people do start to feel.

In order to see the world clearly, you must clean the windows of perception. The only problem is, our society doesn't do windows.

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

"The Holy Spirit . . . wants to flow through us and realize all these wonderful possibilities in the world - if we only open ourselves and allow it to happen."

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.

As I looked at material and spiritual poverty in the world around me, including approximately 2 billion people who haven't even heard the gospel, I knew that I needed to make some major changes in my life.

With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major `bugs' and does not work reliably for some users... The lay public, familiar with only a few incidents of software failure, may regard them as exceptions caused by exceptionally inept programmers. Those of us who are software professionals know better; the most competent programmers in the world cannot avoid such problems.