Quotes About World

But in a world where England is finished and dead,I do not wish to live.

He was scolding me," replied Mr. Cord. "Have you noticed, Crystal, what a lot of scolding is going on in the world at present? I believe that that is why no one is getting any work done—everyone is so busy scolding everybody else. The politicians are scolding, and the newspapers are scolding, and most of the fellows I know are scolding. I believe I've got hold of a great truth—

The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.

love's the dirtiest thing in the world

I sound happy, even though the world is a frightful dream.

What can we do about our world? Why do you all make me struggle?

I don't know why it was a tragedy, the world.

Why is this jostling procession of waters, its many strands overclambering one another, so many word-marks, momentary traces in wind-script of the world's voices, why is it so bragging and surrendering, love-making, spending, working and wandering

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.

After all, watching a child march successfully into the larger world is one of the greatest satisfactions parenthood has to offer.

My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

The normal world tries to stifle emotion with the noose of its own deadness.

I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happened.

It is the pain of being in the world, where so much that is fair passes into death and forgetfulness. But if we are to know joy, we must embrace that pain. You cannot have one without the other." Maerad nodded, her face downcast. Sometimes, it seemed to her, the pain far outweighed the joy.

None of these monsters are evil. It's the evil of others that makes them powerful. Beaten down by the world, shunned, robbed of what they love, they don't curl up and die. They don't apologize. They fight back. They get bigger, stronger, more terrifying. You are a monster. We all are. Be grateful for THAT.

All I will say is my brother's narrow idea of Christianity seems to bring more suffering into the world than relief.

Why didn't everyone feel as I did that natural beauty raises the spiritual energy of the world?

Now you have more knowledge of yourself and the world; you are equipped to make choices, but there are none left to make.

There is no invasion as fearful as love, no havoc like desire. Its fuse trembles in the human heart and runs through to the core of the world. What are our defences to it?

They inhabited a lost world of splendour and brutality, a world dominated by religious change, in which there were few saints.