Quotes About World

What a mess the world is in. It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.

What a mess the world is in," cried the man, reading the news in his paper. "It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.

Ovaj svijet ne?e uništiti atomska bomba, kao što kažu novine, nego ?e umrijeti od smijeha, od banalnosti, od ismijavanja svega, i zato što ?e od svega praviti vic, i to loš vic.

The world is simply the reflection of those of us who make it up.

This is a world of shadows, Daniel, and magic is a rare asset. That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.

sólo era alguien en el mundo invisible de la ciudad de los pobres y los intocables. Hay épocas y lugares en los que no ser nadie es más honorable que ser alguien. El prisionero del cielo

In this world, the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.

Éste es un mundo de sombras, Daniel, y la magia es un bien escaso.

Mi padre construyó este palacio para mí, ¿sabía usted? Dijo que me protegería del mundo. Pero ¿quién nos protege de nosotros mismos?

Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that." Professor

en este cochino mundo donde se pudre todo, empezando por la belleza y acabando por la memoria.

En mi mundo, las grandes esperanzas sólo vivían entre las páginas de un libro.

The year Alicia Gris arrived in Madrid, her mentor and puppet master Leandro Montalvo taught her that to keep your sanity, you must have a place in the world where you can lose yourself if necessary. That place, that last refuge, is a small annex of the soul, and when the world reverts to its absurd comedy, you can always run there, lock yourself in, and throw away the key.

La realidad del mundo empezaba a ser más grotesca que las pantomimas de los payasos y los osos danzarines. Pronto, nadie nos necesitaría. El siglo XX se había convertido en el gran circo de la historia.

Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

Az életet IstentÅ'l kapjuk, de a világot az Ördög felügyeli.

Under the warm light cast by the reading lamp, I was submerged into a new world of images and sensations peopled by characters who seemed to me as real as my surroundings.

Mein Freund', sagte er schließlich. 'Verlieren Sie die Hoffnung nicht. Wenn ich in dieser grauenhaften Welt etwas gelernt habe, dann, dass das Schicksal immer gleich um die Ecke wartet. Als wäre es ein Taschendieb, eine Hure oder ein Losverkäufer, seine drei abgegriffensten Verkörperungen. Und sollten Sie sich eines Tages entschließen, es zu suchen - denn Hausbesuche macht das Schicksal nicht -, dann werden Sie sehen, dass es Ihnen eine zweite Chance gibt.

to keep your sanity, you must have a place in the world where you can lose yourself if necessary. That place, that last refuge, is a small annex of the soul, and when the world reverts to its absurd comedy, you can always run there, lock yourself in and throw away the key.

Meritocracy and the Mediterranean climate are by necessity incompatible. I suppose it's the price we pay for having the best olive oil in the world.

Éste es un mundo de sombras, y la magia es un bien escaso.

This is a world of shadows, Daniel, and magic is a rare asset.

Ce monde ne mourra pas d'une bombe atomique, comme le disent les journaux, il mourra de rire, de banalité, en transformant tout en farce et, de plus, en mauvaise farce.

Cómo está el mundo —exclamó el hombre ante las noticias de su periódico—. Se conoce que, en las fases más avanzadas del cretinismo, la falta de ideas se compensa con el exceso de ideologías.