World Quotes - Page 79

I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that.

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical.

I am still fighting to make the world a better place and you can, too.

I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world.

As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.

We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.

No matter what our personal circumstances may be, if we ourselves become a source of light, then there will be no darkness in the world.

When things are investigated, then true knowledge is achieved; when true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere; when the will is sincere, then the heart is set right ; when the heart is set right, then the personal life is cultivated; when the personal life is cultivated, then the family life is regulated; when the family life is regulated, then the national life is orderly; and when the national life is orderly, then there is peace in this world.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.

The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!

How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world!

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.

Everyone is born beautiful, some people just let the world turn them into something ugly.

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.

All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.

The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.