World Quotes - Page 513

We are smart and powerful enough to change our world as we need.

I have seen what is to come in this world and I understand how I fit in. I fit in protecting the animals because many more are to die before we all stand up. I see who I have become because I had to die to be able to let go of consciousness.

The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.

The only way you're going to get something to last in this world is to work at it

Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that.

The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory.

The kids all knew me from Wayne's World. The grown-ups knew me after True Lies.

That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.

This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.

The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.

A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to distress. Hunger is not among the postponable wants; and a day, even a few hours, in such a condition is often the crisis of a life of ruin.

The birthday of a new world is at hand.

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it. That which may be thought right and found convenient in one age, may be thought wrong and found inconvenient in another. In such cases, who is to decide, the living, or the dead?

Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you work for, or 'fight for.' It is indeed 'fighting for peace' that starts all the wars. What, after all, are the pretexts of all these Cold War crises, but 'fighting for peace?' Peace is something you have or do not have. If you are yourself at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world. Then share your peace with everyone, and everyone will be at peace.

Death comes to all. His cold and sapless hand Waves o'er the world, and beckons us away. Who shall resist the summons?

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

Your relationship with God, others, yourself, and all creation keeps changing for the better. Most of the world's religions have developed maps to describe this process.

It is essential for world peace that the world religions make peace with each other. If they don't, we can hardly expect the nations of the world to lay down their arms.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, "that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.

Some of the best opportunities in the world are the most obvious ones.

Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.