World Quotes - Page 509

Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.

Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.

We're going to do it. We're going to get to the World Cup.

I've always been a generous and a kind person and so on, but never, ever have I experienced that kind of love. The world just looked different to me and still does.

If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.

Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger—except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover? Now, that's an interesting question.

A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them.

The developed world should be willing to help [Africa] and support her and make this energy affordable.

Nobody in the world is completely dependent on another person, but we are all interdependent.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

The greatest asset of man is man. The wealth of any man is dependent upon the wealth of every other man. Abundance for one is impossible in an impoverished world.

Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.

A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty.

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

I do not doubt but the majest and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world; I do not doubt there is far more in trivialities, insects, vulgar persons, slaves, dwarfs, weeds, rejected refuse than I have supposed.

Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don’t think of grown-ups, and we don’t think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget.

Today we are shapers of the world of tomorrow.

Just as all the world loves a lover, it has been my experience that all the world loves a trailerite.

The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?