World Quotes - Page 73

It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.

The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast.

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

Okay, here is the uplifting part: Your life isn't and has never been about you....about what you accomplish, how successful you are or are not, how much money you make, what sort of position you ascend to,...or how much good you do for others or the world at large. Your life, like mine, and like everyone else's has always been about one thing: love.

There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we were but yesterday, though that yesterday had passed over us unappreciated and unenjoyed.

There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.

I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.

The designer's job is to imagine the world not how it is, but how it should be.

Children reinvent your world for you.

For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.

I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.

Beings with un-redeemed earthly karma are not permitted after astral death to go to the high causal sphere of cosmic ideas , but must shuttle to and fro from the physical and astral worlds.

By your stumbling, the world is perfected.

The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini.

I believe the world is beautiful, and poetry, like bread, is for everyone.

I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.

All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this goddamn world upside down to do it.

What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.

You have to embrace the world if you want to live in it now.

The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.

Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.