Quotes About World

There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.

Then he began to speak. "Golf recapitulates evolution," he said in a melodious voice, "it is a microcosm of the world, a projection of all our hopes and fears.

The process of experiencing is well described by Goethe when he says that our life is made up of our connections with the world about us, and that we must each spin our own web and sit at the centre to catch what we can.[21] The web itself is made up of past experiences, and each new connection with the world about us, in so far as it is fully known and understood, is an addition to that web, and so an added means of experiencing.

To rest was to receive all aspects of the world without judgment. A bath in the sea, a fuck with a soldier who never knew your name. Tenderness toward the unknown and anonymous, which was tenderness to the self.

He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion. A glance could lead to paragraphs of theory.

Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world.

When Handel had his breakdown, he was, according to my opera-loving mother, "the ideal man" in that state, honourable, loving the world he could no longer be a part of, even if the world was a place of continual war.

Miss Lasqueti consumed mostly crime thrillers, which constantly seemed to disappoint her. I suspect that for her the world was more accidental than any book's plot. Twice I saw her so irritated by a mystery that she half rose from the shadow of her chair and flung the paperback over the railing into the sea.

In my work I sometimes borrow Claire's nature, as well as her careful focus on the world.

He always knew the layered grief of the world as well as its pleasures.

Dinlenmek,dünyay? tüm yönleriyle ama hiç yarg?lamadan kabullenmektir.

The year is 194-. What? For a second I forget. But I know the month and the day. One day after we heard the bombs were dropped in Japan, so it feels like the end of the world. From now on I believe the personal will forever be at war with the public. If we can rationalize this we can rationalize anything.

I]t is the powerful who write the laws of the world-- and the powerful who ignore these laws when expediency dictates.

Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it would be wrong to suggest we have been calling the shots, or acting always in our own best interests. Indeed there is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.

How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrate it down to manageable proportions, and then force it through the eye of a grammatical needle one word at a time.

why our usual perception of the world is "limited to what is biologically or socially useful"; our brains evolved to admit to our awareness only the "measly trickle" of information required for our survival and no more.

In wildness is the preservation of the world, Thoreau once wrote; a century later, when many of the wild places are no more, Wendell Berry has proposed this necessary corollary: In human culture is the preservation of wildness.

great writers stamp the world with their minds, and the psychedelic experience will forevermore bear Huxley's indelible imprint.

Si yo fuese un dictador dispuesto a controlar la prensa nacional, Organic Gardening sería la primera publicación que acallaría, porque es la más subversiva. Creo que los horticultores orgánicos encabezan un esfuerzo serio por salvar el mundo, cambiando la disposición del hombre hacia él para alejarse del estado colectivo, centralista y superindustrial y alcanzar una relación más sencilla, real y de tú a tú con la propia tierra.

I come from oldest country in the world and everybody know when Iron Sheik see the bad person like the OJ Simpson or jabroni Chris Brown or the good man like the Ray Lewis, I respect them or break their back.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.

I think we have a sin problem in the world. It's so easy to say we have a race problem, but we got a sin problem.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.