World Quotes - Page 573

They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and had to drink in all the sleep in the world during these last hours.

A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.

Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.

Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.

Behind all the hype shaping the electronic highway are corporate interests. These huge companies are doing the most natural thing in the world to them; following their own corporate interest.

The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. It needs a moral mobilization against the hideous ideas of the police state and human slavery. I suggest that the United Nations should be reorganized without the Communist nations in it. It is a proposal based solely upon moral, spiritual and defense foundations. It is a proposal to redeem the concept of the United Nations to the high purpose for which it was created. It is a proposal for moral and spiritual cooperation of God-fearing free nations. And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us.

The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips.

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

Truly, this world can go on without us, if we would but think so.

Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed.

There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.