World Quotes - Page 579

Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.

Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.

Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world.

Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

In one way, I'm never going to get out of this material world unless it's by His grace but then again, His grace is relative to the amount of desire I can manifest in myself.

The world used us as an excuse to go mad.

Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

One of the effects it [cocaine] had on my personality - my moods, my behaviors - was that it inhibited me a lot. It kind of took possibilities out of my world, and made the focus of things very narrow.

If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase.

Personally, emotionally, I'd rather divorce myself from the world than face the heartbreak of partial success. Because partial success implies overwhelming failure.

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

Discussions without end have been devoted to the subject of peace, and the efforts to obtain a general and lasting peace have been frequent through many years of world history.

When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.

I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.