World Quotes - Page 636

The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.

Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.

The world is not something to understand. Instead, you just adapt to it.

For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may not be listening. He, or it, may or may not be inclined, or even able, to do very much about us and our world, even if he (or it) wanted to ... all you can do is send off a message, like a marooned sailor scribbling a note and putting it in a bottle, on the off-chance that someone out there might pick it up. That kind of prayer takes a good deal of faith and hope. But it isn't Christian prayer.

I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.

Is there so much love in the world that we can afford to discriminate against any kind of love?

dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.

Pastries . . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage our hunger, when the orgy of their sugary sweetness is not destined to full some primary need but to coat our palate with all the benevolence of the world.

I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world." - Paloma

Although many swamis and yogis had come from India to the West, Prabhupada was the only one with the purity and devotion to establish India's ancient Krishna conscious philosophy around the world on its own terms-not watered down, but as it is.

It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.

When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked the world. When I joined the Muslims, I shocked the world. When I beat George Forman, I shocked the world. I am from the House of Shock

Going to Chicago was like going out of the world.

Everything is flowing. The Great River of Time takes everything with it, and nothing in this world remains unchanged or stabilized.

In the western world today everyone is a democrat.

To rid the world of aggression and contention is the purpose of Aikido

So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel.

The innocent are punished. That's the world we live in.

That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world.

China has to understand America wants to trade with them. We want a world that's stable. We like free enterprise, but you got to play by the rules.

Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place." He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die.

You were one person, and you changed the world.

You can know the whole world and still feel lost in it.

Acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh pervails completely over the spirit. You don't just turn your back on the world, you turn your back on God. You don't care, and you don't care that you don't care.

I've always been proud to work in the fashion world, but when I discovered how much pollution the apparel industry is responsible for - nearly 10 percent of global carbon emissions - I was shocked. I think it's really embarrassing for every one of us involved in the process.