Quotes About World

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

I'm of the mind that your private life is private and you don't need to put everything out there about yourself - but on there, I describe myself as a citizen of the world, a man of music.

This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment.

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

The man at the center [Donald Trump], soon to be the world's most powerful, now shoulders the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans, the fear and anxiety of millions more.

You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

One who understands is freer in the head but sadder in the heart. It is sad to know that there is so much wrong in our world, and for the most part we are helpless to do anything about it.

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

It is certain, my Lord, that in these days withdrawal from the world means no sacrifice at all.

The romantic love story is a paradoxical fusion of two extraordinarily potent messages. The first is that love, deep connection, is the most important, indeed the only truly important matter in the world. And the second is that true love cannot exist in this world.

Does tension exist between our perfect longings and the imperfect world?

Us evaporates and becomes you and me, adversaries in a cold world of I win, you lose.

Someone really wise once told me that even Christians aren't immune to tragedy. That we can't use this fallen world to gauge our value to God.

Typical Cowboy,"she muttered. "The world could be coming to an end and you wouldn't go outside to watch without your hat." ... "You got that right.

For those uneasy with the world, solitude is the only guarantee of confidence.

I tried yoga once but took off for the mall halfway through class, as I had a sudden craving for a soft pretzel and world peace.

Steve was up for an award as host of the documentary Ten Deadliest Snakes in the World. He lost out to the legendary Walter Cronkite. Any time you lose to Walter Cronkite, you can't complain too much.

I'm not a historian, and I wouldn't want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my stories and you'll notice that the villains are always, always, those in power. The heroes are the little people. I hate the establishment. Always have, always will.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life. It seems to be the modern world: we all are depressed.

The Renaissance invented the Middle Ages in order to define itself; the Enlightenment perpetuated them in order to admire itself; and the Romantics revived them in order to escape from themselves. In their widest ramifications 'the Middle Ages' thus constitute one of the most prevalent cultural myths of the modern world. BRIAN STOCK, Listening for the text