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Quotes About World

it is the intention to do wickedness that is this world's true evil.
~ Douglas Preston
The world's last great pandemic was the Spanish flu outbreak in 1918 that killed a hundred million people—about 5 percent of the world's population. If a pandemic like that were to happen again, it would spread faster and might be impossible to contain.
~ Douglas Preston
There can be no doubt: life is a miraculous thing, and even more miraculous is human intelligence. Our world, this earth, is a surpassingly beautiful place, perfectly suited to our needs. It is as if the world were created for us, so perfect is it. But this is an illusion; in fact, we were created for the world. The world is just right for us because we've been adapting to it for millions of years.
~ Douglas Preston
Alas, his efforts to create predictive AI ended in failure. The world is ruled by chaos, and human behavior is too complex.
~ Douglas Preston
The mail lets fall a Xerox of something written by a man aged 27, a hostage, tortured in prison: My genitals have been the object of such a sadistic display they keep me constantly awake with the pain... Do whatever you can to survive. You know, I think that men love wars... And my incurable anger, my unbendable wounds break open further with ears, I am crying helplessly, and they still control the world, and you are not in my arms.
~ Adrienne Rich
Jesus said, "I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it until it blazes." GOSPEL OF THOMAS
~ Adyashanti
Imagine if you took it on in yourself to reorient your life trajectory toward your divinity. Your divinity: I so loved the world, that I gave it all of myself.
~ Adyashanti
The heavenly state is the context of eternity in which the world resides.
~ Adyashanti
In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus says, "There is light within a man of light, and he lights up the whole world.
~ Adyashanti
Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.
~ Agatha Christie
Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me?
~ Agatha Christie
Poirot sighed. He said "The world is yours, the new heaven and the new earth. In your new world, my children, let there be freedom, and let there be pity. That is all I ask.
~ Agatha Christie
A brave new world. There isn't anything really like that, is there?" "You don't believe in it?" "Do you?" "There is always a brave new world," said Poirot, "but only, you know, for very special people. The lucky ones. The ones who carry the making of that world within themselves.
~ Agatha Christie
And suddenly one of those moments of intense happiness came to her--a sense of the loveliness of the world--of her own intense enjoyment of that world.
~ Agatha Christie
There is always a brave new world," said Poirot, "but only, you know, for very special people. The lucky ones. The ones who carry the making of that world within themselves.
~ Agatha Christie
Vi pripadate Ligi naroda? -Ja pripadam cijelom svijetu, madame, re?e Poirot dramati?no.
~ Agatha Christie
You belong to the League of Nations?' 'I belong to the world, Madame,' said Poirot dramatically.
~ Agatha Christie
What a lot of funny people it does take to make a world.
~ Agatha Christie
Do you know this part of the world well?
~ Agatha Christie
Are you really a detective, then?" "At your service, Madame." "I thought there were no detectives on the train when it passed through Yugo-Slavia—not until one got to Italy." "I am not a Yugo-Slavian detective, Madame. I am an international detective." "You belong to the League of Nations?" "I belong to the world, Madame," said Poirot dramatically.
~ Agatha Christie
when anything beautiful's dead, it's a loss to the world.
~ Agatha Christie
I, too, believe in the force of superstition, one of the greatest forces the world has ever known.
~ Agatha Christie
There is a great deal of wickedness in village life. I hope you dear young people will never realize how very wicked the world is.
~ Agatha Christie
Aunt Jane,' said Raymond, looking at her curiously, 'how do you do it? You have lived such a peaceful life and yet nothing seems to surprise you.' 'I always find one thing very like another in this world,' said Miss Marple.
~ Agatha Christie