World Quotes - Page 637

There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.

The world has entered a new era, evolving from an industrial into a knowledge-based society, and into a society that wants to live in harmony with nature.

I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, orpossibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene.

Nothing in the world excites the culture today so much as a question. A question seems very appropriate to whatever you have in mind. Allowing your work to remain questionable is a way of satisfying your cultural condition.

If freedom led to wider inequality, I would prefer that to a world in which I got artificial equality at the expense of freedom. My objective, my god... is freedom of individuals to pursue their own values.

Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.

We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.

It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.

We can either help to make this world a more incredible place than it has ever been, or we can hasten its return to inorganic dust.

I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead.

The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world.

I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called Ooh La La, that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.

If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent. And so, that's a way to see the world as everybody is equal, not as a result of politics, but as human beings.

Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

When our executive producer, Julie Plec, told me I was going to become a hybrid I got really excited. Because theres a lot of responsibility that comes with that, especially in our world of The Vampire Diaries where Tyler is the first successful hybrid thats made.

Look at your world and your life, and look at what is personal to you. If you're living in an apartment, you need to stick with a narrative that's personal to you.

When biblical material touches on the natural world, we can legitimately use the tools of science. Sometimes that shows us - no shock here - that biblical writers didn't know as much as we now know about the natural world - but God knew that when he picked them, so that alone tells us that "doing science" that would satisfy a 21st century - and beyond - audience wasn't what God was interested in with respect to the enterprise of producing Scripture for posterity.

One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.

The rule, I think, is: Do your homework, learn what there is to learn about the real world, and then when you get in the room, forget it all.

Go out there and do your part to change the world. You may not change all you had hoped but the world will be better for the caring demonstrated by your effort.

Jason Randal is without a doubt the finest in the world at what he does!

I believe I'm one of the loneliest people in the world.

When you have seen the things I have seen and traveled all over the world, you would not be honest to yourself and the world to [look away].

One cannot love a world. It is too large. But a fleck of ground so far as his eye can see, one may hold precious above all.