Quotes About World

I was having so much fun in my first world title fight, against one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world, I didn't want it to end.

My goal is to make the biggest difference possible in the world. I have only so many resources and so much time.

I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.

There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

What to my (spiritually impoverished) mind seemed to constitute a good case for the disenchantment of the world becomes in the minds of the more psychedelically experienced irrefutable proof of its fundamental enchantment. Flesh of the gods, indeed.

What would happen if we looked at the world beyond the garden this way, regarded our place in nature from the same upside-down perspective?

The premise behind the approach was that our fear of death is a function of our egos, which burden us with a sense of separateness that can become unbearable as we approach death. "We are born into an egoless world," Cohen wrote, "but we live and die imprisoned within ourselves.

The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality actually is. Unlike fabulists of whatever hue, there is a materiality in surrealist writing that resolutely keeps it, one might say, 'down to earth'.

Unfortunately, even though Thomas Nagel would love it, technology today does not permit us to truly understand how different organisms experience the world. Often it is even difficult for us to understand our own perception of the world. The best we can do to empirically understand the experience of others, both animals and people, is to use behavioral and brain-activity measurements.

something new. I don't Ã¢â'¬Â¦ this hasn't happened much in the history of the world. We're an army going out to set other men free.

Economic development outweighs climate change in the rich world, too.

the sad emptiness, upon slaying the villain who had brought madness upon his village, of learning that vengeance was not justice and that justice was to be had nowhere in the world;

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?

Da más quehacer interpretar las interpretaciones que dilucidar las cosas; y más libros se compusieron sobre los libros que sobre ningún otro asunto: no hacemos más que entreglosarnos unos a otros. El mundo hormiguea en comentadores; de autores hay gran carestía. El

Et au plus eslevé throne du monde, si ne sommes assis, que sus notre cul

God, Agnes has decided, is an Anglican, whereas Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anything, except that if They divorce, the Devil will leap gleefully into the breach. So, They tolerate each other, and take care of the world as best They can. Moving

Ach,' she says. 'There ain't nuffink in this world but men and women, is there? So you got to care about 'em, ain't you, else what you got to care about?

but the world remains a dangerous place and we remain—merely by being human—vulnerable to the horrors that humans can cause.

Through Sade and Goya, the Western world received the possibility of transcending its reason in violence....

Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.

Liberty, far from putting man in possession of himself, ceaselessly alienates him from his essence and his world

The circle of day and night is the law of the classical world: the most reduced bust the most demanding of the world's necessities, the most inevitable but the simplest of nature's legalities.

The body receives gratuity. The world gives graciously, disinterestedly, asking for nothing back, expecting nothing in return; it has no scales, no balance sheet. Our senses cede nothing in return for it, can give nothing back to the source of given beauties. What could the eye give back to the sun, or the palate to the vines of Yquem?