Quotes About World

Arts and disciplines of that kind are fundamentally selfish; they're all designed to benefit the pupil—not the world.

But when it's read another way, the explanation makes perfectly good sense: Man can never have the wisdom the gods use to rule the world, and if he tries to preempt that wisdom, the result won't be enlightenment, it will be death.

shattered for all time a complex of fundamental articles of our cultural faith: that the world was capable of repairing any damage we might do to it;

I'm saying that the price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just mentioned. It's the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.

We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

Nobody's out to save the world, because nobody gives a damn about the world, that was just a bunch of goofy kids talking.

In other words, man does have a place in the world, but it's not his place to rule. The gods have that in hand. Man's place is to be the first. Man's place is to be the first without being the last. Man's place is to figure out how its possible to do that--and then to make some room for all the rest who are capable of becoming what he's become.

For this is the only power I have, to bestow upon my father the mantle of greatness, a thing he sought in the wider world, but one that, in a surprise turn of events, was here at home all along. "Ah

In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it.

Turkey's regional role, which Erdo?an describes as "a continuation of the Ottomans"? Turkey's "accretion of history, and geographic location," he says, make it "the only country that can lead the Muslim world.

the New World had become the oil granary for the Old; altogether, the United States was to satisfy 80 percent of the Allies' wartime requirement for petroleum.

By 1898, Russia overtook the United States to become the world's biggest petroleum producer.

Yet, while energy transition has become a pervasive theme all around the world, disagreement rages, both within countries and among them, on the nature of the transition: how it unfolds, how long it takes, and who pays. "Energy transition" certainly means something very different to a developing country such as India, where hundreds of millions of impoverished people do not have access to commercial energy, than to Germany or the Netherlands.

Currently, oil use in the developed world averages 14 barrels per person per year. In the developing world, it is only 3 barrels per person. How will the world cope when billions of people go from 3 barrels to 6 barrels per person?

When the SARS epidemic had begun in 2002, China accounted for only 4 percent of the world economy, and the impact on the global oil market was negligible. But now China accounted for 16 percent, and the impact was global; for China not only had become the world's second largest oil consumer, but it also had accounted for half the total growth in world oil demand.

As in the 1960s, oil and energy were now available in abundance and, thus, they were not a constraint on economic growth. Supplies were safe again. Excess oil capacity around the world exceeded demand by 10 million barrels per day, equivalent to 20 percent of the free world's consumption.

The Marcellus shale would turn out to be the second-largest gas province in the world—and possibly the largest.

I see the difficulty of kids in going to university, the difficulty of kids in schools getting arts education, so that the arts and drama and the creative arts are extracurricular. They aren't: they are at the centre, and they are the equipment we so desperately need in the world.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

Fear defeats more people than any other one ting in the world.

"Physicians of all men are most happy; what good success they have, the world proclaimeth, and what faults they commit, the earth coverith."

Of his performing the miracle, Jesus told his disciples, "As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me… While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

I have always been intrigued by other cultures, and traveling to foreign lands has always been a part of my personal passion for learning about our world.