World Quotes - Page 527

Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

The multinational corporation and international production reflect a world in which capital and technology have become increasingly mobile, while labor has remained relatively immobile.

The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Obama, who is becoming more and more preacher-like, wants to be the Punisher-in-Chi ef of the Western World, the Avenger-in-Chie f. There is something oddly Roman about him. ... The lesser races must be civilized and they must be punished... Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.

When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.

God makes the world not out of necessity but by a divine Whim, and the world he makes is a whimsically romantic place. We're all crazy about each other because we're made in the image of Someone who's been crazy about us.

The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls.

The world is a world of tears, and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.

University is a wonderful opportunity to find out not just much more about the world, but much more about yourself, too.

Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes.

If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world.

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.

The closer one gets to either the eastern or the southern fringe of the German-speaking world-the closer one gets, in other words, to the threatening and more numerous Slavs-the more insecure and dangerous nationalism becomes.

If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end up being a situation common in the Third World: some sections of highways in wealthy areas are beautifully maintained and other parts are just dirt-strewn potholes.

We have not been left alone. We have the light of Christ and the Holy Ghost to lead and guide us in an otherwise very dark and dreary world.

We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.

Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.

Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?

In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."

God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.

Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you can get along without it. It's the confirmation of meaning in life.