Quotes About World

His principle in politics was a -very simple one : If you see anything, stop it ; everything that is, is wrong ; the world is a very wicked place.

His principle in politics was a -very simple one : If you see anything, stop it ; everything that is, is wrong ; the world is a very wicked place. He was very enthusiastic about putting through a law for suppressing the evil of drugs.

Cree usted que es un bien devolverle la razón y abrirle los ojos otra vez a este mundo sucio que la rodea?

Ti Noel vaguely understood that his rejection by the geese was a punishment for his cowardice. Macandal had disguised himself as an animal for years to serve men, not to abjure the world of men.

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

Usted tiene hijos? -No. -¿Por qué? El hombre respondió que, para tener hijos era necesario tener confianza en el mundo

In the world I inhabit, there is a shortage of intellectual honesty, but not of intelligence.

Spoljni svet je i dalje tamo. Šta god da uradiš, budi siguran da ?eš ga zate?i na njegovom mestu uvek. Da ?ovek prosto ne poveruje, ali tako je.

chissà cos'hanno perso di così importante per strisciare in quel modo in mezzo alla campagna, chissà se lo troveranno mai, sarebbe bello lo trovassero, che almeno una volta, almeno ogni tanto, in questo dannatissimo mondo, qualcuno che cerca qualcosa avesse in sorte di trovarla, così, semplicemente, e dicesse l'ho trovata, con un lievissimo sorriso, l'avevo persa e l'ho trovata - sarebbe poi un niente la felicità.

Bisogna avere fiducia nel mondo per fare dei figli.

Qualsiasi grande può regredire a inutile comparsa se una mutazione cambia il punto di vista e rende difficile annoverarlo fra i profeti dal nuovo mondo. [...] Non è tanto una questione di forza della singola opera e del singolo autore: è la prospettiva che detta la regola: poi, solo dopo, interviene quella forza, a orientare i giudizi.

It is often the way of the world that goodness is often repaid with badness.

The terrorist organizations were an enemy with philosophies of political and religious fanaticism leaving no room for compromise or peace. As far as Elizabeth was concerned, the world would be a better place if they were all destroyed. If

A brave captain of Spahis cannot risk this, even to gratify a pretty woman, which is, in my opinion, one of the most sacred obligations in the world.

Count,' said Morrel, 'you are the epitome of all human knowledge, and you seem like a being descended from a wiser and more advanced world than ours.' 'There is something true in what you say,' said the count, with that smile which made him so handsome; 'I have descended from a planet called grief.

The paths of which you were just speaking have been traced by all young men of ardent imaginations. Besides the pleasure there is always remorse, from the indulgence of our passions; and after all, what have you men to fear from all this; the world excuses, and notoriety ennobles you?

She knew that she had a tendency to allow her mind to wander, but surely that's what made the world interesting. One thought led to another, one memory triggered another. How dull it would be, she thought, not to be reminded of the interconnectedness of everything, how dull for the present not to evoke the past, for here not to imply there.

We shall change all that...because it is possible to change the world, if one is determined enough, and if one sees with sufficient clarity just what has to be changed.

I am blessed and being blessed is something more than just having something. It is a state of mind in which the good of the world is illuminated, it's understood. It is as if one is vouchsafed a vision of some sort, a vision of love, of 'agape', of the essential value of each and every living thing.

Chance; pure chance. But chance was a dull explanation because it denied the possibility of the paranormal, and people were often disappointed by dull explanations. Mystery and the unknown were far more exciting because they suggested that our world was not quite as prosaic as we feared it might be. Yet we had to adjure those temptations because they lead to a world of darkness and fear.

Now the tea began to do its work- as it always did- and the world that only a few minutes previously had seemed so bleak started to seem less so.

It is the search for beauty...That is what it is. We find ourselves on this earth--gods and men--and we know that it is beautiful. That is one of the few things we understand--beauty; because it is there, in the world, and we can see it all about us. We want beauty. It requires our love. It just does.

His sixth year, it seemed to him, had lasted a remarkably long time and there were points at which he frankly wondered whether he would ever turn seven. But now it was the night before his birthday, and barring some cosmic disaster, the advent of some unexpected black hole into which the earth might be sucked, with the attendant reversal or suspension of time, in very few hours he would be waking up to a world in which he was numbered among the seven-year-olds.

That was what counted, she told herself: those unexpected moments of appreciation, unanticipated glimpses of beauty or kindness - any of the things that attached us to this world, that made us forget, even for a moment, its pain and its transience.