World Quotes - Page 495

I used to wonder: Is Huxley right or is Orwell right? It turns out they're both right. First you get the new world state and endless diversions as you are disempowered. And then, as we are watching, credit dries up, and the cheap manufactured goods of the consumer society are no longer cheap. Then you get the iron fist of Oceania, of Orwell's 1984.

I've been able to see the world many times over. The thing I've learned is less is more. I travel as light as possible. I try to carry on.

Most budget airlines anywhere in the world are going to leave you dissatisfied after using them.

Hillary Rodham Clinton was America's chief diplomat. So let's look around at the violence and danger in our world today in every region of the world that has been infected with her flawed judgment.

When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think we have quieted our fear, but we are actually making ourselves numb with fear. We surround ourselves with our own familiar thoughts, so that nothing sharp or painful can touch us.

Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only change of worlds.

It is time to face real world, even if it is harder and painful. I'd rather fly and crash, than just snuggle and sleep.

In my personal life I'm not very tough at all, but in my professional life, having to deal with being a woman in a man's world, I'm really tough. I never back down from a fight or an argument. I'm willing to stand there toe to toe with anyone.

I feel like women are frequently seen as guests in the comedy world.

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

Remember, the best beer in the world is the one you brewed.

I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. I love what I do.

I am known in parts of the world by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ.

To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world.

He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.

There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.

The world's one and only remedy is the cross.

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

The world meets nobody half way.

Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.

Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a person is to be good, even though they were never to be rewarded for it.

We are living in a world where access trumps knowledge every time. Those who know how to search, find and make the connections will succeed. Those who rely on static knowledge and skills alone will fail.

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.