World Quotes - Page 66

How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd.

In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

Everything we have and everything we enjoy, including our very life, is due to the kindness of others. In fact, every happiness there is in the world arises as a result of others' kindness.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

Gender has always been considered a fact immutable. But we now know it's actually more fluid, complex, and mysterious. Because of my success, I never have the courage to share my story. Not because I thought what I am is wrong but because of how the world treats those of us who wish to break free.

It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

To the great pharaohs it mattered a great deal to bury their treasures in the pyramids, which they thought they would bring to the other worlds. But obviously it doesn't matter to them now. They went, the goods stayed.

There's so much world to see, what's stopping you from flying free?

Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.

we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers

As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.

He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.

The world takes its notions of God from the people who say that they belong to God's family. They read us a great deal more than they read the Bible. They see us; they only hear about Jesus Christ.

Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?

Strive for the Hereafter according to how long you shall remain there, and strive for this world according to how long you shall remain here.

We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.

My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me.

I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat and I built a boat.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.