Quotes About World

In Prabaker's way of courtship, a young man didn't bring flowers or chocolates to the woman he loved: he brought her stories from the wider world, where men grappled with demons of desire, and monstrous injustice.

we can only avoid chaos in the world of human affairs by having an agreed standard for the measure of a unit of morality.

You're a good listener. That's dangerous, because its so hard to resist. Being listener to - really listened to - is the second-best thing in the world. What's the first best thing? Everybody knows that. The best thing in the world is power. ... And what about love? A lot of people say that love is the best thing in the world, not power. They're wrong. Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

It doesn't always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world.

E' un bene conoscere cosa cè di sbagliato al mondo, ma è altrettanto importante sapere che per quanto il mondo sia sbagliato tu non puoi cambiarlo, ma vorrei credere che se agiamo nel modo giusto tutto può cambiare in meglio.

Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the world really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.

Money isn't the root of all evil. Evil is the root of all money. There's no such thing as clean money. All the money in the world is dirty, in some way, because there's no clean way to make it.

The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.

In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate. And no

St. Martin's Press, whose erudition, urbanity, and love for the world of the word are an artist's inspiration.

And some time during the course of that love-song, somewhere in the landscape of the slum-dwellers' reassurances, somehow through the fact of our survival, their world enfolded my life within its dreams, as gently and completely as a swollen tide closes over a stone that stands upon its shore.

Outside on the street early evening glowed on every face, as if the whole world was blushing to think what the night would bring.

the crime of my existence in the world, was invisible and inconceivable.

Când acÈ›ion?m, chiar cu cele mai bune intenÈ›ii, când ne amestec?m în cursul lumii, risc?m de fiecare dat? s? provoc?m un alt dezastru care s-ar putea s? nu fie direct înf?ptuit de noi, dar care n-ar fi posibil f?r? intervenÈ›ia noastr?. Unele dintre cele mai rele nedrept??i au fost provocate de oamenii care au încercat la un moment dat s? schimbe lucrurile.

I was thinking about another kind of river, one that runs through every one of us, no matter where we come from, all over the world. It's the river of the heart, and the heart's desire. It's the pure, essential truth of what each one of us is, and can achieve. All

The evil men are the power—the rich men, and the politicians, and the fanatics of religion—whose decisions rule the world, and set it on its course of greed and destruction.

Monsoon rain fell upon the fountain and surrounding tiles: rain so dense and constant that the sky was a river, and our part of the world was its waterfall.

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.

It isn't hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

It's hard to find evil in this world,' said the Witch. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?

World records aren't broken in practice, and competitive environments and adversity are the birthplace of champions.

I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.