Quotes About World

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle," he said. "We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time. None of us will ever forget this day, yet we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world.

It has always been possible to say The moral emptiness of today's world is appalling.

The opium of the people in the present world is perhaps not so much religion as it is accepted boredom. Such a world is at the mercy, it must be known, of those who provide at least the semblance of an escape from boredom. Human life aspires to the passions, and again encounters its exigencies.

Poetry removes one from the night and the day at the same time. It can neither bring into question nor bring into action this world that bids me.

Estaban no cerne da situación máis vulgar, máis estúpida do mundo. Pero por máis que sabían que era vulgar e estúpida, así e todo estaban alí: a oposición entre o traballo e a liberdade, oíran dicir, xa ía boa que deixara de constituír un concepto rigoroso; e sen embargo era o que máis os condicionaba.

Querían pelexar e vencer. Querían loitar, conquista-la súa felicidade. Pero, ¿como loitar? ¿Contra quen? ¿Contra que? Vivían nun mundo estraño e irisado, o universo reverberante da civilización mercantil, os cárceres da abundancia, as trampas fascinantes da felicidade.

No, you are not the nameless master of the world, the one on whom history had lost its hold, the one who no longer felt the rain falling, who did not see the approach of night. You are no longer the inaccessible, the limpid, the transparent one. You are afraid, you are waiting. You are waiting, on Place Clichy, for the rain to stop falling.

En resumidas cuentas, en este mundo, cada cual consigue lo que se merece. Pero sólo quienes alcanzan el éxito lo reconocen. - Georges Simenon

Oh, yes, well, if he must shoot highwaymen, it's very well, but to leave the poor man dead on the road – though I make no doubt he would have done the same to Vidal, for I believe they are horridly callous, these fellows – but that's neither here nor there. Vidal had no right to leave him. Now people will say that he is wickedly blood-thirsty, or something disagreeable, and it is quite true, only one does not want the whole world to say so.

The Lady Serena, never remarkable for propriety, stared incredulously, and exclaimed: 'What in the world brings you here, I should like to know?' 'So should I!' retorted his lordship. 'How well we should have suited, Serena! So many ideas as we have in common!

This was too much for Pen. 'Well I think it was a ridiculous thing to have said.' 'You see, she knows nothing of the world, Pen,' he said earnestly. 'Then too, she is impulsive! Do you know, she always makes me think of a bird?' 'A goose I suppose,' said Pen somewhat tartly.

When finally substantiated by scientific means, such a view will allow an individual to see his place in the world with greater clarity-- how he came from the world and how he may contribute to his fellows while he enjoys for a brief time the privilege of consciousness and communication.

The dawn is an awakening to a deepening realization of who we really are in and with God and the world, and of what has been going on within us in the night.

Science has always tried to eliminate the subjective from its description of the world. But what if subjectivity itself is its subject?

The Monk then undertook to tell us the history of the world -- an over-ambitious project, I thought, but it passed the time.

The photographs creates a discourse between us and the world, but a discourse that is never neutral, not even in - a photographs taken by a satellite or a surveillance camera. And even if the camera and the photographer were neutral, the viewer is not.

We look at the world and analyze the world, and see what we can do that is in line of our mutual interest and also in line with, you know, what the whole world needs, because this is a world where we really have to all work together.

If, in schools, we keep teaching that history is divided into American history and Chinese history and Russian history and Australian history, we're teaching kids that they are divided into tribes. And we're failing to teach them that we also, as human beings, share problems that we need to work together with.

It is one planet and we all have a duty to protect it. We have to work together. We have to use our power to work together and make decisions and changes that are needed to preserve our world.

I've used my business acumen that I've learned in corporate America and the platform that I've been fortunate to gain in the Bachelor world to kind of see if those two can work together.

World leaders need to work together through the rules-based system of the WTO to tackle unfair practices, including the widespread dumping of steel on world markets at less than market price.

The very first game I worked on was for DreamWorks Interactive's 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park.'

I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.