Quotes About World

The world has locusts, and the world has grasshoppers. I was up to my knees in the world

Everywhere, things snagged me. The visible world turned me curious to books; the books propelled me reeling back to the world.

The mind fits the world and shapes it as a river fits and shapes its own banks.

A mind risks real ignorance for the sometimes paltry prize of an imagination enriched. The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world—if only from time to time.

Freedom is the world's water and weather, the world's nourishment freely given, its soil and sap: and the creator loves pizzazz.

T]here is no separate, no relative world of literature. There is simply the world, with its infinite possibilities of representation.

Go on, do me in, you bastard cowards, I don't want to live anyway, not in a stinking world like this one.' I told Dim to lay off a bit then, because it used to interest me sometimes to slooshy what some of these starry decreps had to say about life and the world. I said: 'Oh. And what's stinking about it?

I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias.

I like nothing better in this world than a good clean book, brother.

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence—the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

Bu dünyaya s?rt Tanr?'yla baÄŸlant? kurmaya getirilmediniz. Böyle ÅŸeyler insan?n tüm gücünü ve iyiliÄŸini yok edebilir. (syf. 3)

She had an ethereal, dreamy personality that was typified by her adamant refusal to wear her glasses despite terrible nearsightedness. I once asked her if she could see without them, and she said that things were very fuzzy. So why didn't she wear the glasses? 'I really do prefer the world unclear' she said.

The meal passed off, therefore, with more success than might have been expected from such oddly assorted company. I reflected, not for the first time, how mistaken it is to suppose there exists some 'ordinary' world into which it is possible at will to wander. All human beings, driven as they are at different speeds by the same Furies, are at close range equally extraordinary.

To those familiar with the rhythm of living there are few surprises in this world.

Changing an organization, a company, a country—or a world—begins with the simple step of changing yourself.

Timing the market is basically playing poker with the best players in the world who play round the clock with nearly unlimited resources.

The movers and shakers of the world are often professional modelers—people who have mastered the art of learning everything they can by following other people's experience rather than their own. They know how to save the one commodity none of us ever get enough of—time.

Todo momento grande y exigente que se produce en los anales del mundo es el triunfo de algún entusiasmo. RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Somos lo que pensamos. Todo lo que somos surge con nuestros pensamientos. Con nuestros pensamientos, hacemos nuestro mundo. BUDA

But overall, the financial services industry contributes a lot to the world. We provide companies with capital to grow, which ultimately fuels employment.

Our country—our world—is one of boundless opportunity waiting for you to explore.

You must understand that you're working for a crazy maniac and that our duty is to find out what he wants and to create the world that he believes in, and to show him that's the way things are

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

Every man to himself is the centre of the whole world;—the axle on which it all turns. All knowledge is but his own perception of the things around him. All love, and care for others, and solicitude for the world's welfare, are but his own feelings as to the world's wants and the world's merits.