Quotes About World

On ne pouvait apercevoir leurs yeux qui semblaient alors n'être plus que deux trous noirs et sans fin ouverts sur l'envers du monde.

Ovidio ha scritto che il tempo distrugge le cose, ma si è sbagliato. Soltanto gli uomini distruggono le cose. E distruggono gli altri uomini. E distruggono il mondo degli uomini. Il tempo li guarda fare e disfare. E scorre indifferente.

Distances" Swifts turn in the heights of the air; higher still turn the invisible stars. When day withdraws to the ends of the earth their fires shine on a dark expanse of sand. We live in a world of motion and distance. The heart flies from tree to bird, from bird to distant star, from star to love; and love grows in the quiet house, turning and working, servant of thought, a lamp held in one hand.

The best way to live is God's way. His commands are not burdensome (1 John 5:3); they are made for us to enjoy life. God made the world. He is the only person qualified to write the User's Manual. And because he is loving and generous, his instructions will always lead to the best and happiest life. The

The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's curiosity to interface with more and more history and the present world.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Sanity," she says to the ground, "is a mutual agreement between folks trying to control their world.

Prince, I warn you, under the rose,Time is the thief you cannot banish.These are my daughters, I suppose.But where in the world did the children vanish?

To be a housewife is ... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

The Sufis, like all mystics, are singers of a homesickness that is a kind of hope; all of us are exiles in the world, they tell us, longing to get back to the place that is our rightful home.

And just as it is common to hear how, when one is in love, anything one sees reminds one of that love—our feelings remake the world in a secular equivalent of the faith that sees the hand of God in everything—so I began to find that when one is thinking on a theme, everything seems to reflect on it. Suddenly, everything I saw or read, in this girlish city of temples, seemed to take me back to the theme of the lady and the monk.

The ultimate purpose of Zen," I remembered the röshi telling me, "is not in the going away from the world but in the coming back. Zen is not just a matter of gaining enlightenment; it's a matter of acting in a world of love and compassion.

But it speaks for an inner world— and again this is evident in Murakami— that sits in a different dimension from the smooth-running, flawlessly attentive, and all but anonymous machine that keeps public order moving forward so efficiently in Japan.

And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.

La luna era ormai alta alta nel cielo, s'era rimpicciolita e pareva non volesse più aver che fare col mondo, tutta assorta nella contemplazione di quello che ci stava al di là. Al mondo, pareva che ormai mostrasse solo il sedere; e, da quel sederino d'argento, pioveva giù una luce grandiosa, che invadeva tutto.

Niente è più banale che dire: la vita continua. Ma lui ora sente proprio questo, perché conosce, nel mondo, delle persone che continuano.

Since we came to this world we only heard lies. But it's the lies that make it interesting. The truth would devastate us

Véritable défi à toutes les formes d'économisme, l'ordre littéraire (etc.) qui s'est progressivement institué au terme d'un long et lent processus d'autonomisation se présente comme un monde économique renversé : ceux qui y entrent ont intérêt au désintéressement ; comme la prophétie, et spécialement la prophétie de malheur, qui

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

The [members of the German Social Democratic Party] remained in the same party, and lived in the same world, and this gave their disagreements a special complexion, because debates which are settled by compromises, and which lead to action, are more fruitful than dialogues of the deaf

Clemency is the noblest trait Which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

It's amazing to know that my work as a Artist can influence women around the world, and my visions for new products can shape the future of beauty for women.

I think literary theory satisfied a deep love I have for big, encompassing narratives about the world and how it works - which are usually, in the end, more creative visions unto themselves than illuminating explanations.