World Quotes - Page 519

To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if I were a working stiff, I could never afford to do this. But I don't even think about money.

There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.

The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.

I believe very strongly that in this world you have to have values and you have to stand up for your interests and if you don't do those things you're not going to get anywhere.

What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.

I wrote poetry for seven or eight years, maybe longer, before I could say I was a poet. If people asked, I'd say I wrote poetry; I wouldn't go further. I was in my mid- to late-thirties before I felt that I was a poet, which I think meant that I had begun to embody my poems in some way. I wasn't just a writer of them. Hard to say what, as a poet, my place in the world is. Some place probably between recognition and neglect.

They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing with their fear. Someday they will wake. Perhaps something frightful will happen. Indeed, there is no better invitation to the frightful than ignorance - that is, sleep. (29)

To tell you the truth I love Sam. It's not a movie kind of love either. I just look at her sometimes and I think she is the prettiest and nicest person in the whole world.

Sin endeavors to subject the blessed God to the humor and lust of every person in the world

Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted and believed in. It entails that one embrace this world in all its contingency and specificity, with all its ambiguity and flaws.

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.

How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.

Theres nothing more reassuring than a world thats crazier than you are.

Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human action is given by material impulses ... merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forces

I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.

Fear in the world first created the gods. [Lat., Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.]

The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die.

When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world was perfect.

The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.

Not only does God play dice with the world He does not let us see what He has rolled.

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

I'm sure thousands of people in the world are taking on twice what I am attempting. I'm really looking forward to it all.