World Quotes - Page 84

No matter where you are in the world the moon is never bigger than your thumb.

There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.

If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.

God put a million, million doors in the world for His love to walk through. One of those doors is you.

To be Christian is to be obliged to engage the world, pursuing God's restorative purposes over all of life.

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

Globalization, which attempts to amalgamate every local, regional, and national economy into a single world system, requires homogenizing locally adapted forms of agriculture, replacing them with an industrial system-centrally managed, pesticide-intensive, one-crop production for export-designed to deliver a narrow range of transportable foods to the world market.

If the corporations have their way, the Earth will be killed, and that's in your lifetime. It's revolting to me that students are being trained to work in corporations. It's obscene to me that the corporations are running the world. We've got to get cross. Anger is an appropriate emotion.

If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.

There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.

I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.

If you want to be a photographer, particularly a photojournalist , you want to learn about the world. You want to learn about yourself. And you want to find things that you genuinely care about, because that will be the source of your greatest work.

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, being aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the pheneomenal world really is.

I would stand there at times and remember how beautiful God created this world, and then I would be reassured that he would certainly take care of me and all of my loved ones.

By celebrating what's right with the world, we find the energy to fix what's wrong.

Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.

When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world.' If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.

We don’t recruit volunteers; we release leaders. Volunteers do good things but leaders change the world.

Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.