Quotes About World

in acoustic culture, the world, like sound, is all around you, and comes at you from all directions at once. It is multilayered and nonhierarchical; it has no center or focal point.

I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs - is how the world works. The world isn't logical; it's a song.

We live in a world where to be powerless is a risk The future is not a mystery but a function of what we do today

She lacked those colder qualities that carry the Lady Melbournes of this world securely to prosperity. Too soft-hearted, too ungoverned, she could not take a firm line with herself or anyone else.

If modernity is, as I will argue, a global phenomenon, a Eurocentric approach is bound to mislead us. More recently, historians interested in world history have tried to see modernity as a global problem that requires a global explanation.

H. G. Wells wrote a history of humanity as a response to the carnage of World War I. There can be no peace now, we realize, but a common peace in all the world; no prosperity but a general prosperity. But there can be no common peace and prosperity without common historical ideas.… With nothing but narrow, selfish, and conflicting nationalist traditions, races and peoples are bound to drift towards conflict and destruction.2

Fernandez-Armesto, F. (2007). The world: A history. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.

As I see it, my job is to maximize my talents and experiences in a way that will help make the world better—to carry my own weight in impacting the universal trajectory of mankind.

In the end, it is not the power of the mind nor the strengths of the body but the instincts of the human heart that save the world. It is the simple human capacity for mercy that finally allows evil to be overthrown.

The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

the Principle of Mediocrity opposes the pre-Enlightenment arrogance of believing ourselves significant in the world; the Spaceship Earth metaphor opposes the Enlightenment arrogance of aspiring to control the world.

It is a shameful spectacle to see how the whole democratic world is oozing sympathy for the poor tormented Jewish people, but remains hard-hearted and obdurate when it comes to helping them.' More than a little rich when coming from the tormentor in chief, but hard to dispute.

As we live together in Scripture as "Our One True Story of God for the Whole World," we come to know its authority in and through Jesus Christ.22 Anything less reduces Scripture to a collection of facts or feelings.

But I have learned that life is more complex, that the door between this world and the next is sometimes left ajar, and that each of us is more, far more, than we are told we are.

Evangelicals now stand among those who are on easiest terms with the world, for they have lost their capacity for dissent.

Each breath of air a world

from Uppsala, a Swedish city that doesn't interest many people. Even the inhabitants of Uppsala* themselves are embarrassed; the name of their city sounds almost like an excuse. Sweden has the highest suicide rate in the world.

il n'en démeurait pas moins un homme romantique, pensant que le monde des femmes pouvait se réduire à une femme.

In Dan's case, the interest in policymaking is so central to the students' presence at Harvard that it would be foolish to run a statistics course that did not acknowledge it. He goes as far as to build this into the purpose of the course: as we heard earlier, his purpose is "not just to maximise learning about statistics, but also to maximise learning of the skills that will be useful to have out there in the world.

The railroad network of the German Empire made the Kaiser's realm the most advanced military power in the world, and Britain's precarious naval supremacy began to seem less relevant than it had been.

Women preach all over the world as foreign missionaries, and it doesn't offend—it

Our calling is therefore the way of being that is both best for us and best for the world. This is what Frederick Buechner means when he states that "the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

Did the Father in sending Christ, and did Christ in coming into the world, to make atonement for sin, do this with the design or for the purpose of saving only the elect or all men? That is the question, and that only is the question.

A human being unable to have a meaningful impact on the world ceases to exist.