World Quotes - Page 617

Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.

Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.

Our claim to our own bodies and our world is our catastrophe.

A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive. We cannot afford the destructive effect of competition.

I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.

I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world ...make it a better place for this and future generations.

Economists got away from really questioning how the world works, how decisions actually got made. If something doesn't conform to neoclassical models ... people are not somehow behaving themselves properly.

When I read a script, I am already in the movie with my music, and I can dive into a world that I haven't seen before.

Those who are not capable of sinning are said that they have attained freedom. The knowledge of the Truth raises them even more. This makes them both free and above this world. But only Love creates. He who became free thanks to knowledge, because of Love remains a slave of those who have not managed to attain the Freedom of knowledge yet. He brings the knowledge to them and this develops the latter because it calls them to the Freedom. Love takes nothing: how can it take something? Everything belongs to it. It does not say, "This is mine! And this is mine!" But it says: "This is yours!"

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.

The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?

After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.

How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.

Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.

My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she's magical.

You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.

Stop seeing socialists and anti-Americans as Democrats. When a Michael Moore compares beheaders to our own Minutemen and laments that too many Democrats were in the World Trade Center, he deserves no platform alongside Wesley Clark or a seat next to Jimmy Carter or praise for his pseudo-dramas from high Democrats.

A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.

Christ is Lord of all. This truth implies that he is lord of language, lord of grammar, lord of history, and lord or interpretive principles. We cannot just take things over unchanged from the world around us. We should be thinking through and living through the implications of Christ's lordship in every sphere of life.

It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.

How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.

[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that.