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Quotes About World

I speak of love that comes to mind: The moon is faithful, although blind; She moves in thought she cannot speak. Perfect care has made her bleak. I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.
~ Allen Ginsberg
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
~ Allen Klein
What has to change in this world are attitudes.
~ ALLENDE, Isabel
So why isn't the world overrun with evil spirits? Moira stared at her, a half-smile on her face. Who says it isn't?
~ ALLISON BRENNAN
Perspective is a tool used far too infrequently. If people had the courage to alternate their lens every now and then, the world would be a far more beautiful place.
~ Alyson Richman
The glory, it has passed, the great days, they have gone. There is no place in the world now for our kind, not unless we will take it, and take it with much blood. There are those who will do so, but me, I find I love my fellow man too much and I cannot end his life, not even to restore what has been lost. But without great ruthlessness, glory fades and strength is gone.
~ Amanda Grange
make your children unhappy so they can face the world, but then, what is a world without children's laughter?
~ Ambeth R. Ocampo
In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.
~ Ambrose Bierce
O God! what a thing it is to be a ghost, cowering and shivering in an altered world, a prey to apprehension and despair!
~ Ambrose Bierce
The house seemed almost without smells at all, pleasant or foul, leaving me to wonder if the upper class existed on a different sort of air from the rest of the world, a breeze piped into their homes from above the clouds, so clean you had to pay for it.
~ Ami McKay
Hitler, Pol Pot. Funny, isn't it? How it only seems to be evil people who think they can change the world? I wonder why that is.' And Kai had responded, 'Because they're mad.' She had dug a sharp elbow into his ribs. Then she shook her head. 'But they do, don't they? They do change the world.
~ Aminatta Forna
Science is a system of rational thought devised to investigate the world and establish the laws by which it operates. The scientist uses those laws to achieve an effect. One which might easily appear magical in the eyes of the primitive.
~ Joe Abercrombie
But chaos is the natural state of things, for men pull always in their own directions. It is those who want the world to march all the same way that give themselves the challenge.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Bah. What does it matter now? There are no certainties let in the world. That was the age of great men, doing what was right." He frowned down at the broken rubble choking the floor of the colossal room. "This is the age of little men, doing what they must. Little men, with little dreams, walking in giant footsteps.
~ Joe Abercrombie
He always told me that to change the world you must first burn it down.
~ Joe Abercrombie
It wasn't easy. But if changing the world was easy, everyone would be at it.
~ Joe Abercrombie
What is the world coming to when an honest man cannot burn corpses without suspicion?' asked Nothing.
~ Joe Abercrombie
to draw from the world below is fraught with peril. The Magus
~ Joe Abercrombie
All was repeated in the still mirror of the lake below – another, shadowy world, upside down beneath his own.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I myself have left a thousand tasks unfinished, unstarted or outright failed across the whole breadth of the Circle of the World. In the end, they bother me considerably less than my successes." "I'm
~ Joe Abercrombie
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
~ Joe Baca
We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
~ Joe Baca
Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.
~ Joe Biden