World Quotes - Page 577

I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.

This digital world is completely fascinating to me.

Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

It's a good world if you don't weaken.

Patience! Patience! Patience is the invention of dullards and sluggards. In a well-regulated world there should be no need of such a thing as patience.

I could quite happily just make music because it conjures up a whole visual world for me in my mind.

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

There is a sad tendency in our world today for persons to cut one another down. Did you ever realize that it does not take very much in the way of brainpower to make remarks that may wound another? Try the opposite of that. Try handing out compliments.

We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.

Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there was no stopping me.

We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.

You can have all the talent in the world, but if the pumper's not there, it doesn't matter.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one.

To finally get that call from the doctor that you're pregnant and you're having a baby.... It was just another world.

The independents are the ones who tend to commit suicide. I'm not against this way of being in the world. Individuals have brought us many treasures. You can't just say that's a bad way of being in the world - it's not. But it's not everyone's way of being in the world.

It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see the boundary between self and the world as relatively permeable, which makes you "interdependent" (collectivist) in outlook, or relatively impermeable, which makes you "independent" (individualistic).

In life, if one wants seriously to understand how the world works, he must die at least once.

But often times, I feel like I'm so blessed, it's not fair. That what I'm doing is not contributing to the good of the world.

Each person comes to have this musical experience, this moment with us, where they get to sink into our world for a little while. It’s this very unhurried world. It’s fairly quiet, it’s contemplative, but it can be quite panoramic. I think people think interesting thoughts at our shows, and they go rather deeply into some personal experience of their own. I’m really proud that our music seems to connect, because it’s not for everybody. But for the people that our music works for, it really gets down pretty deep in there.

The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.