World Quotes - Page 616

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan.

I want the world to be better because I was here.

I've been very fortunate to be involved in all the Super Bowls, to see some World Series, to cover heavyweight championship fights; I've been to the Olympics and seen every sporting event there is.

The attempt to isolate economics from other disciplines-notably politics, history, philosophy, finance, constitutional theory and sociology-has fatally disabled its power to explain what is happening in the world.

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others.

Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled.

So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?

I like walking around and listening to music. When my steps coincide with a beat, in my head I feel in unison with the world that I'm living in.

Look for goodness in others, for beauty in the world, and for possibilities in yourself.

Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.

Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.

Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.

In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.

Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.

We divide ourselves up into spirit and human, but essentially we are all a part of the same world.

Finally, if you still are growing, you reach the highest archetype, the archetype of the spirit. This is the time when you finally realize what Jesus meant when he said, "You are in this world, but you are not of this world." You are not here as a human being having a spiritual experience, but the reverse is true: All of us here are spiritual beings having a human experience.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

South Africa, it's like the little asshole of the whole world - it's, like, the bottom. It's, like, in the dark depths of the hallway.

There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.

Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world — Los Angeles in the '50s — they made perfect sense.

Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral. Slavery was legal. Did that make it moral? South Africa’s apartheid, Nazi persecution of Jews, and Stalinist and Maoist purges were all legal, but did that make them moral?

With all the hatred in this world, in this good world, let us be kind to one another.

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.