World Quotes - Page 556

I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.

I can't spend too much time in the forests because I invariably leave traces-ridiculously happy trees, basically, since I'm the last Druid in the world and they tend to geek out like Joss Whedon fans when I show up.

The world provides no cheerleaders on the pathway to godliness.

There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.

She had the same responsibility as everybody else did: to live as softly as she could in the world.

Acting is a strange profession, and, yes, sometimes I struggle with its worth, its value in the world.

I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them.

Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.

It is vital for Russia to normalize relations with the rest of the world. You shouldn't isolate your economy

Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets.

Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead paint, rats and rat poisons, or a rural world where families do not enjoy the minimal levels of public health accepted as standard for nearly a century. Whether in city or country, this is a world where cavities go unfilled and ear infections threatening permanent deafness go untreated. It is world where even a small child learns to be ashamed of the way he or she lives.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

I've just always been a coin collector, ever since my grandfather had some ancient coins that he passed down to me, it's just always been something. I love collecting coins from around the world in my travels but I they don't really do anything useful anymore, I guess.

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.

I create something that means something to me, to the world, and try to do my best. I can't fix everything.

The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.

Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.

In stillness, we find our peace. Knowing peace at home, we bring peace into the world.

I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.

LESBIANS are women who prefer their own ways to male ways.LESBIANS prefer the convoluting halls of sensuality to direct goal-pursuing mores. LESBIANS have made a small world deep within and separated from the world.What has usually been called the world is the male world.

I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.

I think that's such an important message, especially for younger women, to know, 'I don't have to come out of the womb painting like Frida Kahlo. My very first thing that I make isn't going to be an around-the-world sensation.' You have to paint a hundred really ugly, barfy, diarrhea paintings before you come up with that one where you start to really get into your groove.