World Quotes - Page 500

Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

If the Fleeting World is but a long dream, it does not matter whether one is young or old.

The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.

We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called it the Cold War. But it wasn't cold. I am someone who comes from the third world. In the third world, the cold war wasn't cold. Millions had been killed. It was a proxy war.

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.

You are responsible for the world that you live in.

What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world?

In my perfect world, Hanna and Caleb would get married in Paris and have six kids and she's the new Anna Wintour. Just because I'm such a Haleb fan.

In my opinion when you speak about relationships between people, you are actually talking about everything in their world because everything is contained in that relationship.

The first theme that every audience can get easily everywhere in the world is the theme of judgment. You are constantly judging if this character is doing something wrong or right, or the other character is doing something right or wrong.

What is happening to our world is almost too colossal for human comprehension to contain...To contemplate its girth and its circumference, to attempt to define it, to try and fight it all at once, is impossible. The only way to combat it is by fighting specific wars in specific ways.

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.

Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.

The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.

Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.

When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come!

Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.

Whatever good there is in the world I inherit from the courage and work of those who went before me. I, in turn, have a responsibility to make things better for those who will inherit the earth from me.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.