Quotes About World

The signal-fires of warning They blaze, but none regard; And on through night to morning The world runs ruinward.

I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

You're a kid,' said Alexandra. 'There is no just about it. Only adults say just a kid and what the heck do they know about anything? Have you looked at their world lately?

Öte yandan, modern dünya ?iirinin kurucular?n?n ?iirin yap?s?nda yapt?klar? devrim, dizeyi de yerinden oynatm??t?r." ?lhan Berk, 'Poetika', sayfa 36

Now, you should admit it: you are here engaged in some military action directed against the Yuuzhan Vong, knowing full well that any action you take could embroil the people of this peaceful world in your destructive war." "Isn't destructive war kind of redundant? Until I see a constructive war, or even a giggly war, I have to think so." Mudlath & Han

Poetry does important work and that work has a bearing on real life, but I've often been stymied by the question of how poems can effect material change in a world that is, generally, not especially interested in what poetry or poets have to say.

She did love them all. They had found a purpose for her. They had given her something noble to do that would benefit the entire world.

A country isn't a rock. And it isn't an extension of one's self. *It's what it stands for, when standing for something is the most difficult!* Before the people of the world - let it now be noted in our decision here that this is what *we* stand for: *justice, truth... and the value of a single human being!*

Together, we can create a world in which peace is real in which every human being can thrive in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

Before maps the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it shape and made it seem like territory, like something that could be possessed, not just laid waste and plundered. Maps made places on the edges of the imagination seem graspable and placable. And later when it became necessary, geography became biology in order to construct a hierarchy in which to place the people who lived in their inaccessibility and

Bu anlams?z dünya kargaÅŸa dolu ve ben de kaybolanlardan biriyim.

Kimse bana dünyan?n çirkin yüzünü görmeyi ögretmemiÅŸti ve ben her ÅŸeyi aptal gibi görüyor, hiçbir ÅŸeyi anlam?yordum.

I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard of thing. Before maps, the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it shape and made it seem like territory, like something that could be possessed, not just laid waste and plundered. Maps made places on the edges of the imagination seem graspable and placable.

Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

This world's anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Well then; I now do plainly seeThis busy world and I shall ne'er agree;The very honey of all earthly joyDoes of all meats the soonest cloy,And they (methinks) deserve my pity,Who for it can endure the stings,The crowd, and buzz and murmurings,Of this great hive, the city.

The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.

Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone's core beliefs about the nature of God, humanity, and the world.

Though it was not right, and never can be, we understand what went on in the heart of those who sought escape from the world, in cell or hermitage, for the sake of unbroken fellowship with God. It might have been efficacious, if in withdrawing from the world they had been able to leave the world behind. But we carry it in our heart. Wherever we go it goes with us.