World Quotes - Page 506

I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.

There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.

It's a matter of seeing the original meaning of all things. The world is full of all kinds of meanings. But our minds are so fettered by the lies and falsehoods they make for themselves, that they cannot see the beauty, goodness, or truth of those meanings. Only a mind that has become free can see such things.

The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize... It was only a dream

It seems to me every one of us is doing something meaningful for this world.

What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?

A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them.

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that

We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.

We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.

The Lockean assumption that if we put our labor to it then it becomes our own is totally fallacious. We have to figure out how to leave things alone, and build an economic system that's not built on a linear model, but instead on a cyclical model, because that's the natural world - it's cyclical and not linear. That is going to take a lot of transformation.

The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness, the adventure, ends also that. Death balances the picture.

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised

It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force

So, the world happens twice-- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is.

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.

You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

Value dwells not in particular will; It holds his estimate and dignity As well wherein 'tis precious of itself As in the prizer.

I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.

A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in.

Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them.

Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.