Quotes About World

It's a world full of terror and beauty (...) and I could always understand why Dustfinger felt homesick for it.

They let him in without a word, their prince's poet, the man who put their world in ink words, and had made it out of words.

But that was the trouble with this world — at heart, it was childish.

The world around them was as still as if it had used up all the words, as if all the tales there were to tell in this world had now been told.

Ma scusa, lo dici sempre anche tu: i libri devono essere pesanti perché dentro hanno il mondo intero.

All evil in the world is the result of an imbalance between the people who benefit from shenanigans and the people who get screwed by shenanigans.

It's a big world, and most of it is fungible. Doesn't matter where you are or what's around you, if you can cover your basic needs and find something productive to do.

I wonder how often evangelical Christians in today's world have completely inverted these priorities, kowtowing to the overly conservative, judgmental insiders and blasting away at the non-Christian world for not adhering to Christian morality. Yet how can we expect non-Christians to pursue Christian morality when they do not have God's Spirit within them, the Spirit who alone makes such obedience possible?

It seems my calling is to destroy rather than create. To finish removing my body. To erase my presence from this world.

Finally, one would have to put all this information together to shape a continuum, a narrative in which the House of Bush and the House of Saud dominated the world stage together in one era after another. Having done so, one would come to a singular inescapable conclusion: namely, that, horrifying as it sounds, the secret relationship between these two great families helped to trigger the Age of Terror and give rise to the tragedy of 9/11.

It is always a mistake to underestimate the little people of the world, for it is often they who tip the balance.

Worrying won't help it turn up any sooner. And look!" continued the giant. "If you waste your time worrying, how will you have a moment to see how beautiful the world is?

You see, it was not only Hiccup who was growing up, it was the entire world around him — and when whole worlds grow up, that can be painful and difficult. Was it all worth the Archipelago in flames? I do not know, you decide.

In short, the period following the end of World War I was not just marked by the conclusion of the war to end all wars, but also by a profound shift in the logistics of the world

In my expectation that good fortune will lead inextricably to its reversal, I should note that I don't think I'm less deserving of happiness than anyone else; it is that in an unequal world, nobody deserves the privileges I enjoy.

Napoli è la più misteriosa città d'Europa, è la sola città del mondo antico che non sia perita come Ilio, come Ninive, come Babilonia. È la sola città del mondo che non è affondata nell'immane naufragio della civiltà antica. Napoli è una Pompei che non è stata mai sepolta. Non è una città: è un mondo.

Judaism says that you are to partner with God in the work of tikkun, repairing the world with justice, kindness, and humility.

Evil would be done, that was the nature of the world; that was bearable if good could also be done.

He would have to be as clever as a river, he thought, to do well. But he could twist and turn like water, and go his own way, however hard the world tried to drive him along another -- or, the thought he could do that.

What he was doing, creeping through the world like a thief – where he was going to, in secrecy – what he might be fleeing from – those questions also she didn't know the answer to. But she did know that only the Lords went beardless.

The bright side of the planet moves toward darkness And the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour, And for me, now as then, it is too much. There is too much world.

Não podia. Hoje em dia os confins do mundo ficam a menos de cinco minutos de Charing Cross. Com o telégrafo sem fios, os confins da Terra não existem. Os reis de Daomé e os lamas do Tibete escutam Londres e Nova Iorque.

Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.

The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I'll do my best. But you're right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.