Quotes About World

The security of our world is found in the advancing rights of mankind.

As hope kindles hope, millions more will find it. By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.

I don't think you can win it. But I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world.

Karol Wojty?a, the disciple who was a product of the Church in the modern world, not of the Roman bureaucracy.

the crisis of the modern world was first of all a crisis of ideas, a crisis in the very idea of the human person. History was driven by culture and the ideas that formed cultures. Ideas had consequences. And if the idea of the human person that dominated a culture was flawed, one of two things would happen. Either that culture would give birth to destructive aspirations, or it would be incapable of realizing its fondest hopes, even if it expressed them in the most nobly humanistic terms.

The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.

In this snug, over-safe corner of the world… we may realize that our comfortable routine is no eternal necessity of things, but merely a little space of calm in the midst of the tempestuous, untamed and streaming world.

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.

S'il n'y avait que des salauds dans le monde, le Réalisme serait aussi le Bon Sens, car le Réalisme est précisément le bon sens des salauds.

After all, to cultivate clever people is merely a way of dining out, and a priest has no right to go out to dinner in a world full of starving people.

We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always so near to the sublime. And the world, usually so indulgent to foibles, hates ours instinctively.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those portolano-makers who saturated the coastlines with the names of harbours, the names of capes, the names of inlets, until in the end the land was only separated from the sea by a continuous ribbon of text. Is the aleph, that place in Borges from which the entire world is visible simultaneously, anything other than an alphabet?

Uvijek je popodne kada se ne?ega sjetimo, ili je barem kod mene tako. Sve je svjetlost. Znam s fotografija da je popodnevna svjetlost najprikladnija za ekspoziciju. Popodnevna je stara svjetlost, umorna i spora. Pravi život svijeta i ?ovjeka može se opisati kroz nekoliko popodneva koja su poslijepodneva svijeta.

The history of the family can be described through the abandonment of several children. The history of the world, too.

The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill.

My family's ignorance of the world they lived in was always a source of worry to me, and I never lost an opportunity of imparting information.

IgnoranÈ›a familiei mele în ceea ce priveÈ™te lumea în care tr?iesc a constituit întotdeauna un motiv de îngrijorare pentru mine È™i n-am l?sat niciodat? s?-mi scape vreo ocazie de a le împ?rt??i cunoÈ™tinÈ›e.

used to feel that I was a victim of the world I saw. When things would go wrong, I would blame the world or those in it for my misery and feel justified in my anger. Today, I know I am not a victim of the world I see, and therefore tend to take responsibility for whatever I perceive and for the emotions I experience.

I never really believed in Satan, or that there was pure evil in the world, until I came here.

My mother had that talent for endowing any place she was with dignity and charm. She behaved elegantly and politely, and thus hoped to change the world.

if everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world.  If there is such a thing as original sin, it's the human capacity to get everything wrong, right from the beginning and all the way up to now, and that's what the old storytellers have been telling us, including the Creek Indians who told this story along with every other tribe on earth. 

It's the kind of story that people tell. There are monsters in this world, to be sure, but there are a sight more storytellers.