World Quotes - Page 63

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.

To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.

and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.

I probably just want to leave a trace of myself behind in this world.

The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.

There is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.

It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.

How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.

I think the solution to making this world better is if we would just be healthy, mentally.

I saw the suffering and I let myself feel it… I saw the injustice and was compelled to do something about it. I changed from being a nun who only prayed for the suffering world to a woman with my sleeves rolled up, living my prayer.

There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that slow you for a minute-give you pause-are good.

You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.

Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us love the world rather than to make us fear for the end of the world.

During peace time a scientist belongs to the World, but during war time he belongs to his country.

The world has always been this way. I am sure in the mystery world of Egypt, ancient Atlantis, you pick a cosmos - There is always somebody on your case.

When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world.

Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.

Why is it the Mongols of this world always tell us they're defending us against the Mongols?

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.