Quotes About World

Que una industria semejante pudiera existir le pareció extraño e improbable hasta que leyó un artículo donde se calculaba que el tamaño de la economía mundial del oro virtual oscilaba entre los mil y los diez mil millones de dólares al año.

The total number of living humans was now sixteen.

our Unarians reviewed summaries of the Sæcular news of the year just ended. Then, once every ten years, just before Decennial Apert, they reviewed the previous ten annual summaries and compiled a decennial summary, which became part of our library delivery. The only criterion for a news item to make it into a summary was that it still had to seem interesting. This filtered out essentially all of the news that made up the Sæcular world's daily papers and casts.

There had been no drones shadowing him in Canada, but apparently the United States was a different story. It was, as all the world knew, a completely insane and out-of-hand country, unable to control itself.

The mind couldn't think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial. Because it was through trivia that the mind was anchored in reality […]

Julia was construing this as an attack on her record. "We had eight hundred healthy young men and women from every ethnic group in the world." "Had," Aïda repeated. "We had." "The amount of effort required to keep a few sample containers deep-frozen wasn't worth the—" "Stop," Ivy said.

Edmund Palling was a sensible man. He was, as a matter of fact, one of those Englishmen who was so sensible that he was daft. For as any French-influenced courtier could explain, to insist on everything's being reasonable, in a world that wasn't, was, in itself, unreasonable.

The collapse of the lighthouse must have been astonishing, like watching the World Trade Center fall over.

The software was never sold to anyone, and indeed could not have been; it was so legally encumbered by that point that it would have been like trying to sell someone a rusty Volkswagen that had been dismantled and its parts hidden in attack dog kennels all over the world.

For as any French-influenced courtier could explain, to insist on everything's being reasonable, in a world that wasn't, was, in itself, unreasonable.

I vivi rimasero a casa, infestando il mondo dei morti come fantasmi.

I tell you this: Compassion never ends, love never stops, patience never runs out in God's World. Only in the world of man is goodness limited. In My World, goodness is endless.

This one simple change—seeking and finding peace within—could, were it undertaken by everyone, end all wars, eliminate conflict, prevent injustice, and bring the world to everlasting peace. There is no other formula necessary, or possible. World peace is a personal thing! What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness.

I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me.

Of course I wasn't abused. If I were; things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.

But most of all I feel my brain, up there taking in blood and looking out on the world and noticing humor and light and smells and dogs and every other thing in the world—everything in my life is all in my brain, really, so it would be natural that when my brain was screwed up, everything in my life would be.

If the world is something you accept rather than interpret, then you're susceptible to the influence of charismatic idiots.

When you organize extraordinary missions, you attract people of extraordinary talent who might not have been inspired by or attracted to the goal of saving the world from cancer or hunger or pestilence.

A legacy rises to become culture only when its elements are so common that they no longer attract comment—not because people have lost interest, but because people cannot imagine a world without them.

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the Moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, "Look at that, you son of a bitch." —Edgar D. Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut

it would take much, much less energy to repair our world than for all of us to travel to another one.

Silence held the bubble of the world in its grip.

books, i think, are a different kind of time machine. instead of reminding you of a lost world, they create one for you. more personal, more intimate-unlike movies, say, the world you experience while reading a book has been lived and envisioned entirely from the INSIDE, and its contours are yours alone.

The ideal I've been striving for is not the way people have relationships in the real world.