World Quotes - Page 576

There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in contact with turns immediately into a condition of their existence. The world in which the vita activa spends itself consists of things produced by human activities; but the things that owe their existence exclusively to men nevertheless constantly condition their human makers.

Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.

There was a Russian cult of eunuchs known as the Skoptsy who were renowned for their proficiency as mathematicians, bankers, and moneylenders. Outsiders called them rapacious but this was simply their jealousy speaking - when one is freed from sexual desire, or sexual desire is transmuted into work, suddenly the world becomes engorged with possibilities.

Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.

What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively, but most of them are ruined in the process of preparing them for the table.

The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.

Game of Thrones' is a fantasy show not dedicated to any specific time, but it seems to exist in sort of a 1400s medieval fantasy world, and in that setting, I wouldn't have had a six-pack.

Jake Green isn't just Jake Green. Jake represents all of us. The colour green is the central column of the spectrum and the name Jake has all sorts of numerical values. All things come back to him within the film's world of cons and games.

We can only begin to change the world around us when we are willing to become a conscious part of all that is changing.

We're in three living groups, 'cause even after the world's ended some assholes still can't get along.

Even though I really admire what Beyonce does, and she's probably got one of the best live shows in the world - honestly! - that's so not my style.

Religion is a belief in supernatural entities or forces that have an effect on the natural world - A belief in forces that are invisible, intangible, inaudible and otherwise undetectable by any natural means.

You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.

When a movie succeeds, it takes me to another world where I don't think about it and I'm just immersed.

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

In our world, all puns are beautiful and they are the highest form of comedy.

Ever since you're little you hear this: 'The pilgrims left England to escape religious persecution and sneak religious freedom into the new world.' But even when you're little you're like, 'Umm.. Bullsh*t?'

The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.

Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod.

We shouldn't blame the Panama programme for the World Cup bid failing