Quotes About World

I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

I'm an artist and a journalist. I travel around the world very often for 'Vice Magazine,' and I draw and I write about prisons, about conflict zones.

I'm from England, and like every other great empire who stole bits of the world, there is a price to pay. And I was born in 1935. So, since I've been conscious of the world, I've either been in, or been on the periphery of, a war zone.

To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, to take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is.

Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.

Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.

O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink With little children saying grace In every Christian kind of place.

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.

The town is man's world, but this (country life) is of God.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much the master of the world as he who is ready to die.

The world does not have to change.... The only thing that has to change is our attitude.

God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality ....

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites ihay be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, tho' the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.

Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.