Quotes About World

The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.

The world went on, even as it fell apart, changed irrevocably, became something strange and different.

The air trickling out of his mouth like a series of tiny lies about the world that had decided to extinguish him.

If the world is a just place, that mark

It creates out our ecosystem a new world, whose processes and aims are utterly alien--one that works through supreme acts of mirroring, and by remaining hidden in so many ways, all without surrendering the foundations of its otherness as it becomes what it encounters.

very least, we had become a failed state. Was the world a failed state, too?

All the wonderful things in the world. All the ways life was better even if the world wasn't. This stutter-step of disaster after natural disaster was just a blip next to LED lights, driverless cars, a possible end to poverty through gene-edited crops.

Democracy is not enough because it is never really Democracy. The -ism that will fix this has not been written down because it exists in what remains of the world beyond us and we cannot read that language. So we are left with flawed ways of thinking, mechanical ways, that work against the very organic nature of our brains. We have built so many toxic constructs, we cannot see through the latticework.

When I saw those hundreds of journals I felt for a long moment that I had become that old biologist after all. That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you from the outside in, forcing you to live in it's reality.

Dobbiamo amare ciò che è stato ferito, perché tutto è stato ferito. E amare le ferite vuol dire avere a cuore il mondo. Vuol dire essere vivi. Vuol dire che il mondo è vivo.

Each word a world, a world bleeding through from some other place, a conduit and an entry point, if you only knew how to use them, the coordinates the biologist now used in her far journeying. Each sentence a merciless healing, a ruthless rebuilding that could not be denied.

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.

The most influential author for me is Teilhard de Chardin, the French anthropologist and theologian. He believed, as I do, that the world is evolving toward a pleroma or fullness. Each human act contributes to this grand evolution and therefore does not cease to exist when it is completed.

Cuando la línea entre una iglesia santa y el mundo secular se vuelve borrosa, sin duda la iglesia se volverá antropocéntrica (centrada en el hombre en vez de Cristo-céntrica (centrada en Cristo).

Y Cristo no solo nos encargó {lit. nos comisionó} que fuéramos, también prometió que iría con nosotros. Hasta el fin del mundo, Cristo viajará a los confines de la Tierra por medio de Sus mensajeros para llamar a Su pueblo a Sí mismo (Mat. 28:20).

We have entered a new era. Global society is interconnected as never before. [...] I suggest that we have arrived in the Age of Sustainable Development.

Since the war, little in the world makes sense and once you see part of it that way, all else follows.

You'll never solve your mysteries, Scharr. Not as long as we live in this. This world's a whore, all soaked in perfumes, and you're so easily seduced." He tapped his skull. "Break the eggshell. Time to fly.

to change the world of work and leadership, we need to get beyond the half truths and self-serving stories that are so prominent today.

We live in a world with a 17th century definition of jurisdiction, an 18th century model for the judiciary, a 19th century model for law enforcement, and a mountain of outdated 20th century styled regulations.

We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well.

The world was such a different place, but there were the same stars, the same kinds of yearnings beneath them.