World Quotes - Page 551

People always ask how there are female priests, but in this world there are.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

In some respects I will never die. Because art is immortal. What we leave behind and what we create - the energy that we put out into the world is eternal.

You touch the world even if you do not want it to touch you. -Leona Montgomery

I try to say goodbye and I choke Try to walk away and I stumble Though I try to hide it, it's clear My world crumbles when you are not here

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

I notice that as I get rid of the protective covering of the middle years, I am more openly amused and incautious and less careful socially, and that all this makes for increasingly pleasant contacts with the world.

Nature has a drive for wholeness and has created us only in relationship like one giant superorganism. It's a fact there is a connection between atoms and all of us in relationship with each other and with our environment. In all of our societal relationships there is a bond so profound and intricate that it's impossible to say where one thing stops and another thing begins. So you see this mirrored in every aspect, from the subatomic world to the world that we're more familiar with. So competition ends up being a false creation in our society.

The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.

The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do it through sport.

Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

I was once that little boy Terrified of the world, now I'm on a world tour

China is soon to be probably the most powerful nation in the world, but they only making like $10,000 a year, and that's doing it. They're balling on $10,000 a year, and this is the strongest nation? But it's a billion people. The way it breaks down, if you really look at it, it's still built on the poor, on the backs of hundreds of millions of destitute, impoverished farmers that you'll never see. You just see Shanghai and you see Hong Kong.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

It took two years of me telling Canon engineers that a camera is a thing between the human hand and the human eye, so it had to have ergonomics on both sides! They got the message, and we did it, and overnight it was the camera of the world. Everyone - Nikon, Yashica, Sony - all copied Colani.

The earth is round, all the heavenly bodies are round; they all move on round or elliptical orbits. This same image of circular globe-shaped mini worlds orbiting around each other follows us right down to the microcosmos. We are even aroused by round forms in species propagation related eroticism. Why should I join the straying mass who want to make everything angular? I am going to pursue Galileo Galilei's philosophy: my world is also round.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.

The world divides into facts.

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.

The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.