Quotes About World

Half the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important.

This form, this face, this life living to live in a world of time beyond me; let me resign my life for this life, my speech for that unspoken, the awakened, lips parted, the hope, the new ships.

The world turns and the world changes, But one thing does not change. In all of my years, one thing does not change, However you disguise it, this thing does not change: The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.

And when all the world came back And the light crept up between the shutters, And you heard the sparrows in the gutters, You had such a vision of the street As the street hardly understands;

It is not my conscience, Not my mind, that is diseased, but the world I have to live in.

The thousand sordid images Of which your soul was constituted; They flickered against the ceiling. And when all the world came back And the light crept up between the shutters, And you heard the sparrows in the gutters, You had such a vision of the street.

The conscience of a blackened street Impatient to assume the world. I am moved by fancies that are curled Around these images, and cling: The notion of some infinitely gentle Infinitely suffering thing.

Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation Upon each other's opacity Neglecting all the admonitions From the world around the corner

Harry has crossed the frontier Beyond which safety and danger have a different meaning. And he cannot return. That is his privilege. For those who live in this world, this world only

What is happening outside of the circle? And what is the meaning of happening?

The world of Swinburne does not depend upon some other world which it simulates; it has the necessary completeness and self-sufficiency for justification and permanence.

In a world of fugitives The person taking the opposite direction Will appear to run away.

Yes, that is what a claustrophobic world can cause: infections spread faster in confined space.

Sometimes people need reasons for things, even when there are no reasons. That's what makes people believe in conspiracies or religions - if there is any difference. The world is just too complicated, so they need simple explanations.

The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.

As I continued through the streets, through the smoke of the burnings and the rubble of the fires and explosions--for during the chaos of the quarantine parts of the city had become something like war zones--my heart began to perceive that there was a wound in the material world that no amount of science could heal, that in fact science itself was only the helpful lie told to a dying man.

Pero... ¿Habría amor en un mundo semejante, Simón? ¿Existirían la belleza y el encanto, sin nada feo con que compararlos? ¿Qué sería un mundo sin sorpresas?

In the world of the Machiguenga, sadness could be equated with anger, and anger was a perilous emotion, by which a foreigner could lose his life.

JUst as the mechanism be sed for war so it can be used for peace. I'st the The Fogg's familys plan to get the mechanism working and then use it for world peace;

Just as the mechanism can be used for war so too can it be used for peace. It's the Fogg family's plan to get the machine working and then use it towards world peace.

That's right, Snowbébé. This world—it's cold and smelly.

That little spark of life, if I should do my duty, should be fanned into a flame, whose light should blaze across the world, and bless, and brighten it.

World history, after all, is not a chronological list of every damn thing that ever happened; it's a chain of only the most consequential events, selected and arranged to reveal the arc of the story—it's the arc that counts.

Marshall Hodgson, Rethinking World History