World Quotes - Page 596

The only way I've been able to stay informed without letting fury rule my life is to channel my rage into something that ultimately feels like love to me. The place I do that the best is in my writing. That's where I feel like I can tap into the power of story and maybe bring something good into the world.

We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world.

It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

I hadn't really thought about the kind of music I wanted to make. I was just making raps and stuff. I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

If you rest on the finished work of Jesus you have already the best evidence of your salvation in the world; you have God's word for it; what more is needed?

Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages.

If you want to convince the world that a fish can sense your emotions, only one statistical measure will suffice: the p-value.

This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.

The world is God's world, after all.

The world by and large has to be reinvented.

When we are parted, let me lie In some far corner of thy heart Silent, and from the world apart, Like a forgotten melody

A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper revolution, a reconceiving of who we are, can reverse the crises of our age.

Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.

Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.

You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.

my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.

I wanted the whole world or nothing.