World Quotes - Page 645

ANYONE WHO GIVES ANYTHING—TIME, MONEY, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, AND NETWORKS—IN ANY AMOUNT, TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD.

The world is a very troubled, very chaotic place. It's a very cold place. It's a very unjust and unfair place in many ways. [As a moviemaker] I have very limited ability to have an impact over all that.

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

The softest in the world surpasses the hardest in the world.

Without stepping out the door, you can know the world.

Even if you're the best singer in the world, there's a good chance no one will ever hear you.

I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.

Hmmmm...There certainly are a lot of pretty boys in this world.

But surely we are not allowed..." "Allowed?" I counters. "We're allowed to do anything in this world until someone says we ain't allowed and that someone can back it up.

Therefore, no matter how the world makes out in the next few centuries, a large class of readers at least will not be too surprised at anything. They will have been through it all before in fictional form, and will not be too paralyzed with astonishment to try to cope with contingencies as they arise.

It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.

The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.

Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do.

She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.

What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.

If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.

My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.

We all inhabit our lives, in different ways to some degree. We see ourselves a certain way, and based on how we see ourselves, that's how we see the world.

If the United Nations is not as united as it should be, that is because it is a reflection of the world we live in.

The World is not ours to keep. We hold it in trust for future generations.

On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew...so dear, So fresh, so fleeting

The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.

The world is facing a historic turning point because the system of materialistic liberalism has come to a deadlock.

In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold.

Since the boundary of the world of poetry is fluid, the language in it is also fluid. Hence, the language that is outside of the poetry world, namely the language that is not the language of poetry, cannot go into the poetry world.