Quotes About World

Grandma says there's more of him. What? Persons like him, in the world. Ah, says Ma. Is it true? Yeah. But the tricky thing is, there's far more people in the middle. Where? Ma's staring out the window but I don't know at what. Somewhere between good and bad, she says. Bits of both stuck together.

How illimitable is the gullibility of mankind, especially, it must be said, when combined with provincial ignorance. But Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur; that is to say, "If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled." Thus quoth Petronius, in the days of Our Lord, an aphorism just as pertinent to our own time.

The old world was changed utterly, dying on its feet, and a new one was struggling to be born.

We all live in an unwalled city, that was it. I saw lines scored across the map of Ireland; carved all over the globe. Train tracks, roads, shipping channels, a web of human traffic that connected all nations into one great suffering body.

Whether love last but one brief span of time or for eternity, it is the only creative, inspiring, elevating basis for a new race, a new world.

Discipline and restraint — are they not back of all the evils in the world? Slavery, submission, poverty, all misery, all social iniquities result from discipline and restraint.

Butler was seeing the world as it was, complete with L.E.P retrival team

Holly: Seven and a half hours to save the world. Isn't there some law that says we get twenty-four? Artemis: I don't think Opal pays much attention to laws.

Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one like you.

We're off again, I suppose," said Mulch eventually. "Off on another save-the-world-nic-of-time-seat-of-your-pants adventure?

Zevenenhalf uur om de wereld te redden. Is er niet een of andere wet die zegt dat we minstens vierentwintig uur de tijd krijgen? - Holly

His little voice piped up, Are you nervous, Wyvern? Holy shit, are you scared? Vern answered back under his breath, I ain't scared, asshole. I'm prudent, is all. It's been awhile, and I'm the last dragon, so far as I know. The world can't stand to lose me. But Vern was nervous, and possibly a smidge scared, which wasn't necessarily a bad thing, though he wouldn't admit it to his little voice. Even Adele gets stage fright, he told himself. Be like Adele and use the energy.

Great, thought Holly. No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.

Seven and a half hours to save the world. Isn't there some law that says we get at least twenty-four?

Thus do the more cautious of travellers act. The road is said to be beset by robbers. The traveller will not venture alone, but awaits the companionship on the road of an ambassador, a quaestor or a proconsul. To him he attaches himself and thus passes by in safety. So doth the wise man in the world.

People instinctively turn to the past to understand the present. But the questions the historian asks are given to him or her by the world they live in.

people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.

If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.

J. B. S. Haldane counts fanaticism among the only four really important inventions made between 3000 B.C. and 1400 A.D.20 It was a Judaic-Christian invention. And it is strange to think that in receiving this malady of the soul the world also received a miraculous instrument for raising societies and nations from the dead—an instrument of resurrection.

The passion for proselytizing and the passion for world dominion are both perhaps symptoms of some serious deficiency at the center.

It is understandable that those who fail should incline to blame the world for their failure.

Si estas décadas demostraron algo, fue que el principal problema del mundo, y por su puesto del mundo desarrollado, no era cómo multiplicar la riqueza de las naciones, sino cómo distribuirla en beneficio de sus habitantes

We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites