World Quotes - Page 58

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.

Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.

And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette.

Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have been made.

My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.

The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.

The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.

My favorite place in the whole world is Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.

I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.

Women of God can never be like women of the world.

Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?

There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.

A single collective directed thought is all it takes to change the world.

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

I pretend I'm not hurt, I walk about the world like I'm having fun.