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Quotes About World

My thoughts create my world -Marcus Flutie
~ Megan McCafferty
Maybe learning how to be out in the big world isn't the epic journey everyone thinks it is. Maybe that's actually the easy part. The hard part is what's right in front of you. The hard part is learning how to hold the title to your very existence, to own not only property, but also your life.
~ Meghan Daum
Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.
~ Meister Eckhart
Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, materialism would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting point is the desire to impose upon the natural world a particular and limited way of looking at it.
~ Melanie Phillips
When truth and virtue are so rare in almost every area of our society the world needs theatre and the theatre needs actors who will bring the truth of the human soul to the stage. The theatre may now be the only place in society where people can go to hear the truth.
~ Melissa Bruder
Magic is an expression of the unlimited capacity of mystery and wonder in the world.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because were all one world.
~ Melissa Hellstern
Gratitude Focus: There are a lot of events, people, and circumstances in the world that help us feel chaotic. We can be grateful for all the people, places, and things that help promote peace.
~ Melody Beattie
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
~ Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
So her safe little world would never be safe again... She knew that the nurturing hand also held the knife, and that was very unsettling.
~ Mercedes Lackey
The reasons for bearing young should simply be love and respect for the incipient child, and for the world they will be born into. If it took more effort to produce a child than the exercise of a moment's lust, perhaps there might be less misery in this world. Perhaps my gryphons will be happier creatures than their creator.
~ Mercedes Lackey
There are many ways to tell the history of the world. Oral histories that were later written down, including the Book of Genesis, the Rig Veda, and the Popul Vuh, focused especially on the actions of gods and on human/divine interactions. The
~ Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
The sun sank with a sob and darkness waded in from all horizons so that the sky contracted and there was no more light left in the world, when, at this very moment of annihilation, the moon, as though she had been waiting for her cue, sailed up the night.
~ Mervyn Peake
He could now inhabit the world of words, with, at the back of his melancholy, a solace he had not known before
~ Mervyn Peake
I bet the pill is harder to get than drugs--which shows how screwed up this world really is!
~ Beatrice Sparks
Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.
~ bell hooks
I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.
~ bell hooks
To maintain and satisfy greed, one must support domination. And the world of domination is always a world without love.
~ bell hooks
We cannot have a wolrd of great environmentalism while we maintain the violence of whtie supremacy and racism.
~ bell hooks
If the world should stop revolving, spinning slowly down to dust "I'd spend the end with you, "And when the world was through "Then one by one the stars would all go out, "Then you and I would simply fly away.
~ Ben Bova
But let me tell you, it is better to be an outcast than a nothing. It is better to do what you must, to rid the world of evil, than to sit by comfortably and pretend that eradicating evil is someone else's responsibility.
~ Ben Bova
In an ideal world, both parties would desire to uphold the Constitution
~ Ben Carson
Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.
~ Ben Carson
What a world, eh? Sometimes I wish I could just live somewhere on Radio 4.
~ Ben Elton