World Quotes - Page 504

One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.

Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.

It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.

If the glass there in front of me astounds me more than all the glasses I've seen in painting, and if I even think that the greatest architectural wonder of the world couldn't affect me more than this glass, it's really not worth while going to the Indies to see some temple or other when I have as much and more right in front of me.

The world consists mainly of love slobs who need other people's approval. Most people don't live their own lives very well.

This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

Please, don't go. It's lonely. There's a hole in my head as big as the world and it's so very lonely.

In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared. We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.

High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage.

The author brings to the table a healthy skepticism of the conventional wisdom, an admirable ability to separate fact from fancy, and an undisguised repugnance for the mumbo-jumbo that's the curse of so much commentary on anything to do with economics or investment. A World of Wealth is not only a lively read, but an exceptionally enlightening and rewarding one to boot.

When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.

We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.