Quotes About World

But the present is no less dark than the past, and its mystery is equal to anything the future might hold. Such is the way of the world: one step at a time, one word and then the next.

The world was full of holes, tiny apertures of meaninglessness, microscopic rifts that the mind could walk through, and once you were on the other side of one of those holes, you were free of yourself, free of your life free of your death, free of everything that belonged to you.

there is only this world and that numbing routines and brief squabbles and financial worries are an essential part of it, that in spite of the aches and boredomes and disappointments, living in this world is the closest we will ever come to seeing paradise.

Et ce monde étrange continue de tourner.

A book is a mysterious object," I said, "and once it floats out into the world, anything can happen. All kinds of mischief can be caused, and there's not a damned thing you can do about it. For better or for worse, it's completely out of your control.

Op die manier is de elektrische stoel uitgevonden. Uitgedokterd door Edison die de gevaren van de wisselstroom wilde tonen en zijn idee vervolgens verkocht aan de Sing-sing-gevangenis waarop het tot op de dag van vandaag wordt gebruikt. Heerlijk, vind je niet? Als de wereld niet zo prachtig was, zouden we allemaal nog cynici worden.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

When he talks about the world, then, he is referring to his world, to the small, circumscribed sphere of his own life, and not to the world-at-large, which is too large and too broken for him to have any effect on it.

Lei ha una storia, e quando una persona è abbastanza fortunata da vivere in una storia, da vivere in un mondo immaginario, i dolori di questo mondo svaniscono. Perché, fino a quando la storia continua, la realtà non esiste più

If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics.

Whenever his eye or mind seems to stop, he discovers another connection, another bridge to carry him to yet another place, and even in the solitude of his room, the world has been rushing in on him at a dizzying speed, as if it were all suddenly converging in him and happening to hm at once.

Die Welt ist in meinem Kopf. Mein Körper ist in der Welt.

The paradox was that the closer movies came to simulating reality, the worse they failed at representing the world - which is in us as much as it is around us.

Dünya sarho? ediyor insan? evlat. Dünyan?n bilinmezli?i sarho? ediyor.

More often than not, what stirs the imagination is best kept in the imagination, and Gwyn is aware of that, she is wise enough to know that the distance between thought and deed can be enormous, a gulf as large as the world itself.

Il mondo é solido per un periodo, poi una mattina esce il sole e si scioglie.

How is this possible? The answer lies in the human capacity to interpret and respond to experiences. We can be made to feel happy, sad, angry, ashamed, or amused by events in the world, but we can also be made to feel happy, sad, angry, ashamed, or amused by our responses to events in the world.

So if the world were a simple place, where the only dilemmas one had to deal with involved a single person in some sort of immediate distress, and where helping that person had positive effects, the case for empathy would be solid.

Rah speaks prophetically. That is, if we don't learn diversity and racial harmony in our own country, how can we go into the world? To aspiring missionaries he writes, "If you are a white Christian wanting to be a missionary in this day and age, and you have never had a nonwhite mentor, then you will not be a missionary. You will be a colonialist. Instead of taking the gospel message into the world, you will take an Americanized version of the gospel."7

We went to the conference expecting to hear how the church in North America was leading the global church into the new millennium. In contrast, we left the conference praying, "Lord, please don't leave the church in North America behind as you move powerfully into the world.

From all this rapid-fire activity—five trillion chemical processes a second—we form patterns of meaning about the world.

by being baptized by John the Baptist, shedding His blood by dying on the Cross, and through this saved all the sinners of the world from their sins.

John the Baptist who was described by Jesus like this bore witness to Jesus also by confirming, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!"(John 1:29) It was John the Baptist who bore witness of Jesus by confirming, "Look! Jesus took away all the sins of the world, and He is none other than the Son of God;

Jesus personally bore witness to the fact that John the Baptist passed-on all the sins of the world onto Him. The Words in Matthew 11:12 bear witness that the sins of the world that being, all the sins of mankind were been passed onto Jesus by John baptizing Jesus.