World Quotes - Page 514

Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman, happens to the human. What happens to the outer world, happens to the inner world.

We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.

Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world.

Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs.

The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost.

I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World.

The only thing more difficult than being a God is being Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke has all these responsibilities, to save the planet. To save the world. To redeem Thom Yorke.

This world is not for the poor, nor the next for the unkind.

When I was 20 or 21, I didn't... I won't say care about anything, but you're like in your own world - you made something that you always wanted to do, and then you kind of think only about your family and yourself.

As a writer, I have always considered it my job to describe the world as I know it; to struggle toward whatever portion of the truth is available to me.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.

In my world, history comes down to language and art.

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

All the world's not a stage.