World Quotes - Page 89

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

What words are in you that can change the world?

Value God and his love more than all the world, though there were millions of them. He valued you before the world, and therefore is beforehand with you in his love. He not only loved you from everlasting, (whereas your love is but of yesterday,) but in the valuation of it, he loved you before all worlds, and preferred you to all worlds: though you loved the world first, before you loved him.

In 1992, one of my dearest friends, Anita Borg, came to me with an idea: a conference featuring women Computer Scientists. The conference would celebrate their contributions to the field and to the world.

Power isn't having the world at your fingertips; it is having the world at your fingertips and being able to give it up!

Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.

The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.

The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.

AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations.

Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world.

If there's another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.

Spring in the world! And all things are made new!

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

The world is vast and meant for wandering. There is always somewhere else to go.

I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.

Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can counterfail a friend?

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.

The customer is always right' may have become a standard motto in the world of business, but the idea that 'the audience is always right,' has yet to make much of an impression on the world of presentation, even though for the duration of the presentation at least, the audience is the speaker's only customer.