World Quotes - Page 588

He's one of the biggest whingers in world football... he's a bloody eejit.

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.

I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.

The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.

Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole.

Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?

Shame is one of the greatest aphrodisiacs in the world, anyway, built into religion.

‎"I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, 'Moody, save all you can.

The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.

There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world.

I always like worlds where you could be in several different time periods.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

By Anglicising ourselves we have thrown away with a light heart the best claim we have upon the world's recognition of us as a seperate nationality...the notes of nationality, our language and customs.

JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.

You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos

When you are young, you always expect that the world is going to end. And then you get older and the world still chugs along and you are forced to re-evaluate your stance on the apocalypse as well as your own relationship to time and death. You realize that the world will indeed continue, with or without you, and the pictures you see in your head. So you try to understand the pictures instead.

As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.