Quotes About World

In these days when anything goes in literature, movies, and even TV, to think there are some places so isolated, so backward, so ill-informed as to what's going on in the world

I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.

by day the known world lost color my hold on it felt loose I imagine that was part of the grief I knew

Ancient World" Orange sunset in the deep shell of summer a long silence reaching across the dry pastures in the distance a dog barks at the sound of a door closing and at once I am older.

If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically.

You weren't going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.

The only morality in a cruel world is chance.

how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

I'm used to being crazy and "rock-n-rolly", which is a little different than this world. For me, it was a chance to stretch a little bit.

Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.

Christmas hath a beauty ... lovelier than the world can show.

Something of eternal significance transpired there. Not only was the calendar of the world changed, but heaven itself and eternity were affected.

There's a lot of cynicism. Let's really enjoy Christmas, with all that's going on in the world.

Audiences forget facts, but they remember stories. Once you get past the jargon, the corporate world is an endless source of fascinating stories.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line)... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own.

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.

When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve.

Today the whole world depends on communism for its salvation, and China is no exception.

I think once the artistic world of the type designer merged with the scientific world of the computer programmer, you began to see this crossover.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.