Quotes About World

She felt an infinite, widening magic in this, and also the element of protest which made people want to nail down pieces of a world that was always sliding away from under them; the world was an assembly line that kept spilling goods forward, into a heap of the lost and forgotten. With the protest came a gaiety, that of small defiant victories over time, creating things to keep.

The good ones develop give. In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.

Janet was a woman in whom early beauty had bred high expectations. Their disappointment brought with it a soured idealism, an idealism capable only of finding the world faulty.

children are not our creations but our guests, people who enter the world by our invitation but with their smiles and dispositions already prepared in some mysterious other room.

Nothing exists now but the tiger, filling his field of vision like a bad accident, like the end of the world: a pair of blazing yellow lanterns over a temple door framed with ivory columns.

The tiger's world, by contrast, is not only amoral but peculiarly consequence-free, and this-the atavistic certainty that there is nothing more lethal than itself-is the apex predator's greatest weakness

Remember: you must participate in the creative world you want to become part of.

I didn't mean any harm.' For who truly means harm in all this world.

We resonate with one another's sorrows because we are interconnected. Being whole and simultaneously part of a larger whole, we can change the world simply by changing ourselves. If I become a center of love and kindness in this moment, then in a perhaps small but hardly insignificant way, the world now has a nucleus of love and kindness it lacked the moment before. This benefits me and it benefits others.

The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness

You are being fashioned into one of two images, either God's or the worlds. Make a choice!

The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

Spiritual love is a position of standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.

The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.

The world has lost faith in American leadership, and the threats are mounting.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

The horrors of the world in general upset me. I cry when I think about how lucky I am with my lovely little family.

I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown!

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.

Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world.

I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.