Quotes About World

El mundo es jaula de locos, los más locos gozan más; mas son pocos.

The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world and ignorance of mankind.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

In short, if you banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world.

Cato Trust me, Lucius, Our civil discords have produced such crimes, 5 Such monstrous crimes, I am surprised at nothing. —O Lucius! I am sick of this bad world! The day-light and the sun grow painful to me.

Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.

The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it.

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

The world needs to understand Jesus' teaching on forgiveness, and when it does, the world will find its way to peace.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

Antislavery idealists might prefer to live in some better world, which like all such places was too good to be true. The American nation in 1790, however, was a real world, laden with legacies like slavery, and therefore too true to be good.

It is through Galileo that the connection between math and the physical world became solidified.

It wasn't just that politicians needed to think more about technology and its unique multidisciplinary role in the world. Those in technology needed to think a lot more about politics.

In such a world, in which virtue is vilified and vice vindicated, it was necessary for Catholics to distance themselves from the zeitgeist: "Today more than ever the Christian must be aware that he belongs to a minority and that he is in opposition to everything that appears good, obvious, logical to the 'spirit of the world,' as the New Testament calls

bishops, and the clergy throughout the world. The holier the Church is in her members (especially the pope and the episcopate), the more agreeable must be her sacrifice in the eyes of God.

My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.

I might be capable of making figures that have heart, conscience, passion, emotion and decency. But there's no call for that at all in the world. People are only interested in monsters and freaks, so I give them their monsters. Monsters are what they want!

Lieutenant Trotta wasn't experienced enough to know that uncouth peasant boys with noble hearts exist in real life and that a lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written.

Sunday is the bridge to the forgotten and discarded Holies of the world . . .

It wasn't till much later — long after the Great War, which people call the "World War," and in my view rightly, and not for the usual reason, that the whole world was involved in it, but rather because as a result of it we lost a whole world, our world.