Quotes About World

Definition merely adds the locks to a world that is assumed to be closed.

But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to embarrass each other to death. Our self-destruction might take a little longer that way, but I believe it would be no less complete.

the single ingredient in American literature that distinguishes it from other literatures of the world is a kind of giddy, illogical hopefulness. It is quite technically sophisticated while remaining ideologically naïve.

IF YOU ABOLISH THE DRAFT, said Owen Meany, MOST AMERICANS WILL SIMPLY STOP CARING WHAT WE'RE DOING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD

What is this fascination the world has with death?

There are many unintentionally cruel talents that the world, indiscriminately, hands out to us. Whether we can use these gifts we never asked for is not the worlds concern.

IF YOU'RE A VICTIM, THE WORLD WILL USE YOU.

HERE is the epilogue; there always is one. In a world where love and sorrow float, there are many epilogues—and some of them go on and on. In a world where doom always muscles in, some of the epilogues are short.

We would be destroying a habitable world," Sloane said, at once repulsed and amazed.

Whether this is your first Star Wars adventure, or one of many over the years: Thank you. Thank you for your dedication to and passion for the Star Wars galaxy. Because of fans like you around the world, the Force will be with us, always. Dave Filoni Executive Producer and Supervising Director, Star Wars Rebels

We must go home to be happy, and our home is not in this world. Here we have nothing to do but our duty.

Then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.

What is this world's delight, Lightening that mocks the night, Brief as even as bright

O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake, Would all their colours from the sunset take: From something of material sublime, Rather than shadow our own soul's day-time In the dark void of night. For in the world We jostle, - but my flag is not unfurl'd...

I find that I can have no enjoyment in the World but continual drinking of Knowledge - I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world

Nada es estable en el mundo. El tumulto es vuestra única música.

Call the world, if you please, the vale of Soul-making. Then you will find out the use of the world.

I cannot say forget me—but I would mention that there are impossibilities in the world.

Almost everyone else has had an opportunity to run the world. I cannot see why these people should not be given their chance.

Degeneracy, rather than signaling the downfall of a society, as it once did, will now signal peace for a troubled world. We must have new solutions to new problems.

In the world of minor lunacy, the behavior of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version. All financial innovation involves in one form or another, the creation of debt secured in greater or lesser adequacy by real assets.

I have sufficiently urged that all suggestions as to financial innovation be regarded with extreme skepticism. Such seeming innovation is merely some variant on an old design, new only in the brief and defective memory of the financial world.