Quotes About World

There's all the difference in the world between teaching a human being and sanding the gears in a machine. The machine does a job. The human being embarks on a quest. The machine hums a dreary, constant drone. The human being sings. One

Perhaps his rage expressed an unspoken, unadmitted bitterness at the truth that he had bought his high place in the world by subduing the claims of affection to the imperatives of power.

And if you can't trust family, who in this five-cent back-alley butt-fuck of a world can you trust?

It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. - Dr. Grief

We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.

It was the garden of a man who wanted to rule the world but couldn't, and so had cut the world down to his own size.

I prefer to use my name from your world.' he said. 'I'm just Matt'.

We used our imagination to create a world of wolves and vampires, ghosts and Cossack warriors—and we chased each other right through the middle of them.

I was asleep, of course, and dreaming, but I remember wondering how he had managed to enter my world before the thought occurred to me that maybe it was I who had entered his.

He described Alan as a popular writer whose books had given pleasure to so many millions of people around the world. It was as if Alan was being introduced on a Radio 4 panel show rather than at his own funeral.

peering at the world with a malevolence that she wore like mascara.

as Mayo and Nohria point out, business has impacted our twenty-first-century world more than perhaps any other sector has. As a result, In Their Time is not simply for those actively engaged in business but for anyone who seeks to have

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world and cultivate so many things.

Writing at home and then going out into the world to talk about why books matter to me feeds the writing. It's a good mix. It provides balance.

Save the Children is an awesome charity that has helped more than 125 million children around the world, providing everything from school books to food to blankets and shelter.

I think Detroit is already providing a model for change in the world. I think that Detroit - I mean, people come from all over the world come to see what we're doing. People are looking for a new way of living.

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

I think that Europeans in general have a more global view of the world because they are in such proximity to other countries that it enables them to travel and see other parts of the world.

In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.

Once established with Great Britain, it would not be difficult, with moderation and prudence, to establish permanent peace with the rest of the world, when our most sanguine hopes of prosperity may be realized.

To try and act like we haven't had great progress is not true. Obama didn't fail - he changed the psyche of the nation and, in some ways, the world.

I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous, from the grassroots up, nations in the world.

Is it possible that the collective global psyche of the world is like an overloaded modem and can no longer meaningfully communicate, comprehend, or listen to anything or anyone else?