World Quotes - Page 570

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.

You write in order to change the world.

And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky.

This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.

Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought to some of the awful things happening right now in the world.

To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of move out into the world, you realize everything is so trippy. That anything can be anything.

There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.

Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.

Change the world is maybe Obama's job.

Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.

You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases.

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

Positive thinking is about remembering that our internal world creates and is more powerful than the external.

Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers.

I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-" "She's foul enough to be one..." "Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.

Ideals are the world's masters.

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.

Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War.

I suppose there is hardly any one in the civilized world - particularly of those who do just a little more every day than they really have strength to perform - who has not at some time regarded bed as a refuge.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.