World Quotes - Page 526

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

I am constrained to express my adoration of the Supreme Being, the Author of my existence, in full belief of His providential goodness and His forgiving mercy revealed to the world through Jesus Christ, through Whom I hope for never-ending happiness in a future state.

Struggling with the world and having the problem of you vs. the world is a really big problem. You're going to lose because the world is so much bigger than you, and longer lasting.

The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!

In spiritual things, this world is all wintertime so long as the Saviour is away.

So at the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the United Nations, the meta-organism of human and planetary evolution.

It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.

Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

Now, to take that which has caused us to create the world, and include it within the world we have created, is clearly impossible. This is why Quality cannot be defined. If we do define it, we are defining something less than Quality itself.

The only difference between causation and the value is that the word "cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value" is one of preference. In classical science it was supposed that the world always works in terms of absolute certainty and that "cause" is the more appropriate word to describe it. But in modern quantum physics all that is changed. Particles "prefer" to do what they do. An individual particle is not absolutely committed to one predictable behavior. What appears to be an absolute cause is just a very consistent pattern of preferences.

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.

Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world.

I think there's just too much greed in the world today [and] that's why we have problems.

I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.

Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.

Spirituality and the secular world are not that far apart.

Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. The best way is to forget doubts and set about the task in hand. . . . If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.

Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.

The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.