World Quotes - Page 80

There's nobody in the world that knows me better than my sister

To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.

As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.

The best way to get away from a crisis and yet hold on the reins without performance is to find a godfather who would save you at crisis and fool the entire world..This is how it has worked for me.

In a world full of people, only some want to fly. Isn't that crazy?

Once you make the unequivocal internal commitment to do something - when you absolutely know this is the time and the place to act - the world around you will shift in all sorts of apparently miraculous ways to make it happen.

It occurred to me that there wouldn't be world hunger, if you people would MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!

The best way to make money is not to have money as your primary goal. I've seen great people come into the business world primarily motivated to make money. Almost without exception they failed.

It's your purpose to leave the world better than how you found it.

Those who would circumcise, implicitly suggest that they know better than nature, God, or whatever power created us and our world.

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.

To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.

If you pay attention to the world, it’s an amazing place. If you don’t, it’s whatever you think it is.

The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.

Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

The world doesn't learn about God by watching Christian movies. The world learns about God by watching Christians.

Each galaxy, star, or person is the temporary owner of particles that have passed through the births and deaths of entities across vast reaches of time and space. The particles that make us have traveled billions of years across the universe; long after we and our planet are gone, they will be a part of other worlds.

The point of justice and mercy anyway is not ‘they deserve it’ but ‘this is the way God’s world should be’, and we are called to do those things that truly anticipate the way God’s world WILL be.

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to...But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I'll fall in love with them, so go figure.

Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.