Quotes About World

99 percent of every beautiful thing you ever knew escaped and went back out into the world where you vaguely remembered it.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

The Bush Doctrine was created to justify ongoing and future interventions on the basis of America's "moral" responsibility since becoming the only superpower left standing. More succinctly, the Bush Doctrine is about pursuing a world empire.

We waited on the plaza while the band wondered what to play at a time like this—something to console or wake the world, or simply to please themselves.

I was a fallow field ruined by brackish flood, but I would choose the wave over the wind, I would swamp your world with wreckage, I would hold fast to you, and you would be saved.

Those two great genies of wishful fulfillment – messianic fervor and technological power – have spotted each other. If they come together, the world, as it is now known, will no longer exist.

The [Bush] aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore...we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities [as] history's actors.

The United States, the President said, "must be a force for good." Americans focused on "good." Much of the world focused on "force," on being handled.

We felt it was really a dangerous world where you got punished for doing nothing.

Do all things without egrumbling or disputing; 15so that you will 1prove yourselves to be fblameless and innocent, gchildren of God above reproach in the midst of a hcrooked and perverse generation, among whom you 2 iappear as 3lights in the world, 16holding 1fast the word of life, so that in jthe day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not krun in vain nor ltoil in vain.

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

The world is disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

The Christian cannot be indifferent to this world which God made and loves. Yet how can he be other than against it in its evil and sin and hopelessness? Both positions are necessary, and both at the same time, and without reserve.

Love God and not the things of this world.

In order to retain a commitment to Jesus's new messianic community with its countercultural values, Christians must accept the fact that the faithful church will often—perhaps always—be a minority community in a broken world.

As the church demonstrates new possibilities for community grounded in Jesus's teaching, the church models a new reality that historically has profoundly shaped surrounding society.46 Perhaps it is not an overstatement to say that "only a continuing community dedicated to a deviant value system can change the world.

Christians today should never claim that democracy is the Christian form of government, but we can and should claim that biblical principles fit better with democratic government than with existing alternatives. In addition, Christian virtues--honesty, tolerance, love for neighbor--strengthen democratic life. Therefore Christians should actively nurture democracy in their own countries and around the world.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)

Creo que el mundo es bello que la poesía es como el pan, de todos. I believe the world is beautiful and that poetry, like bread, is for everyone

The senses give both us and the animals access to the natural world, but we humans have superimposed a second world by internalizing a poem, thereby making the two worlds seem equally inescapable. Outside of the natural sciences, reason works within the second world, following paths that the imagination has cleared. But inside those sciences, nature itself shows the way,