Quotes About World

What sense did the world make? Where was God, the Bloody Fool? Did He have no notion of fair and unfair? Couldn't He read a simple balance sheet? He would have been sacked long ago if He were managing a corporation, the things he allowed to happen...

This is a perfect world I'm riding on an incline I'm staring in your face You'll photograph mine

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

I came to be emulated. That's what people didn't get. Followed, as in being an example, as in making your interior world resemble mine.

guess all spies know how to hot-wire cars. For them the world was one huge,

We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abysses belong to us; are dangers at hand, we must try to love them….How should we be able to forget those ancient myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. —RAINER MARIA RILKE, LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET

As Dean MacCannell pointed out, "Anything that is remarked, even little flowers or leaves picked up off the ground and shown to a child, even a shoeshine or gravel pit, anything is potentially an attraction….Sometimes we have official guides and travelogues to assist us in this point. Usually we are on our own. How else do we know another person except as an ensemble of suggestions hollowed out from the universe of possible suggestions? How else do we begin to know the world?

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

Neurosis may be called a negating of possibilities; it is the shrinking up of one's world. The development of the self is this radically curtailed.

This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.

If the world can no longer afford the luxury of natural beauty, then it will soon be overcome and destroyed by its own ugliness.

Când ai iubit o femeie din adâncul tuturor ochilor, din adâncul tuturor dimineÈ›ilor, p?durilor, câmpiilor, izvoarelor È™i p?s?rilor, È™tii c? înc? nu ai iubit-o destul È™i c? lumea este doar un început pentru tot ce-È›i mai r?mâne s? faci.

He had himself a certain sympathy for Morel; unfortunately, the man had not understood that the world of today was no longer capable of concerning itself with elephants. People had other preoccupations. They were no longer interested in anything except their own skins.

Humor is a passive form of terrorism, of resistance, and of pseudo-aggression that has less to do with changing the world than with mental hygiene. It is self-therapy...

Why do we mortals wonder if it is through 'human chaos' or through 'divine perfection' when the world guides us to some magical event? In either case, is not the result the same? Is the result not 'divine perfection?

I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my body across the mattress and Saskia drew in close to me and placed her open hand on my chest, her mouth near my shoulder; her breath, my breath blew out the candle, and I held my lost Wanderess with tenderness until sweet sleep overcame us.

Wanderess, Wanderess, weave us a story of seduction and ruse. Heroic be the Wanderess, the world be her muse.

Wanderess, Wanderess, emporte-nous dans un récit de séduction et de ruse. Héroïque sera la Wanderess, le Monde sera sa Muse !

To make your life a work of wonder go into the night and wander; penetrate the world asunder, to find your fate in someplace fonder.

Heroic be the Wanderess, the world be her muse.

It isn't that I don't remember. I had my dreams. About another world. Mine. But King Joseph had to go to work, son. The world put that to him. So I took up my hammer and my saw and I made what I could as well as I could, and that was enough. More, you hear me, is crazy.

Hello Love... this is Ron Lundy from the Greatest City in the World!

We have been hijacked by the modern world, where rules, principles, and propositions have explained how everything works neatly—including God.