Quotes About World

it's like in eco-economics where what you take from the system has to be balanced by what you give in to it, balanced or exceeded to create that anti-entropic surge which characterizes all creative life and especially this step across to a new world, this place that is neither nature nor culture, transformation of a planet into a world and then a home.

My body worked so well that eventually all things everywhere were swallowed and digested by me. I grew so large that I ate the world, and all the blood in the world is mine. What am I? You know, even though you are like everything else, and see me from the inside. I am the market.

We live in a world where people pretend money can buy you anything, so money becomes the point, so we all work for money. Money is thought of as value.

People's faces, staring in concert; this ran the world.

Black space, blue world, just like the pictures, but with the startling high resolution of reality. Art stared down at West Africa and a great wave of nausea rolled through every cell of him.

He pulled back his head warily; like many of the children in the neighbourhood, this one had come into the world in the avatar of a complete maniac, and it would not be unlike her to whack him on the forehead with the egg just to see what would happen.

Is anger always just fear flung outward at the world? Can anger ever be a fuel for right action? Can anger make good?

in certain senses the transnationals were expressions of these nations—extensions of their power into the rest of the world, in a way that reminded Sax of what little he knew of the imperial and colonial systems that had preceded them. Frank had said something like that: colonialism had never died, he used to declare, it just changed names and hired local cops. We're all colonies of the transnats.

policymakers think a world police state for a few decades or so

Love is God's first word, the first thought that sailed through his mind. When he said: Let there by light! there was love. And he was well-pleased with what he had made, nor did he wish any of it unmade. And love was the world's origin and the world's ruler; but all its ways are filled with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.

What does the world know? Nothing! You simply get used to something, you accept it and acknowledge it, because your teacher has acknowledged it before you; everything is just a supposition—indeed, even time, space, motion, matter are suppositions. The world knows nothing, it merely accepts things…

No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necessary tool, only, so to speak, the paltry awl to bore with.

Y el amor fue el origen del mundo, el maestro del mundo. Mas todos sus caminos están llenos de flores y de sangre, de sangre y de flores.

I quirked a brow at him. No kids for me. Would you really bring children into a world like this? Eyes alight with playfulness, he said, No. It was just an excuse to get in your pants.

You know that I'm not for sale, right?" "I know. Or I would have already bought you." I grinned, thinking he was kidding, but he just stared into my eyes. Too intense! So I tried a playful turn. "And what would you do if you owned me?" I tweaked his strong chin. "Would I be your slave?" He shook his head. "I would free you, Victoria. And then I would buy you the entire goddamned world.

I know that's not how the world works." "Then change the world." The

No kids for me. Would you really bring children into a world like this?" Eyes alight with playfulness, he said, "No. It was just an excuse to get in your pants.

Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were there'd be no opportunity for faith; and then it would be a very dull existence.

Aucun grand mouvement qui veut transformer le monde ne tolère le sarcasme ou la moquerie, parce que c'est une rouille qui corrode tout.

Middle-earth, in other words, is a hauntingly luminous mirror image of our world. For we know that the world in which we live is a perilous place, a place where good and bad, light and dark, innocence and horror, glory and depravity march side by side and sleep back-to-back.

The world is chaos, punctuated by brief outbreaks of civilization.

The English are quite mad, from the lowest to the highest, but I think they will conquer the world for they are the only folk (excepting the brash Americans who do not count) who know that they are right in all things

If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.

In this world in which we live simplicity and kindness are the only magic wands that work wonders