Quotes About World

Come away! O, human child! To the woods and waters wild, With a fairy hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. —W. B. YEATS

From fame to infamy is a beaten road. —FRANCIS QUARLES All the world doth practice stage-playing. —MONTAIGNE

It's harsh. There's enough harsh in the world. I'm going to try a little optimism for a change.

The treasures, the dreams, the dangers, the glorious diversity of the world and those who live in it. She's a generous mother who offers all we need, and she's a child who needs our tending and care.

The world ended with bangs and whimpers, with blood and pain, with fear and dread. A cashier handing change to a customer, a mother nursing her child, businessmen gripping hands over a deal—these and so many simple contacts spread death like a poisoned cloud over the world. And billions fell.

That the fate of the world rests with a girl who knows so little.

Were we able to release it?" "It's still gimpy. Matt doesn't think it'll make it out there in the world. She's an old girl. We're calling her Xena, because she looks like a warrior.

The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.

Bertand Russell: "Even when one feels nearest to other people, something in one seems obstinately to belong to God . . . —at least that is how I should express it if I thought there was a God. It is odd, isn't it? I care passionately for this world and many things and people in it, and yet . . . what is it all? There must be something more important one feels, though I don't believe there is.

Einstein said that he wanted "to know how God created the world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thought, the rest are details."3

What a beautiful world it was once. At least a river of it was.

Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.

Shortly before World War I, a secretive and disciplined cabal of young Turkish military officers known as the Ittihad took power in Turkey and brought the country into an alliance with Germany. These were the original "Young Turks," and their capacity for cruelty and violence still reverberates in that phrase today.

We might describe ourselves as living the illusion of knowing but not knowing. To know is to act. If we really knew about the state of the world, we would respond to it. It is the same with our unresolved inner problems. There would be no choice about it: we would be a force for change. Wisdom

Sometimes I find myself wishing that the world would end in my lifetime, since that would be oddly flattering; we'd all be part of humanity's apex. That's about as great an accomplishment as I can hope for

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. –GEORGE WASHINGTON

Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates. Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.

The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.

Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.

you can't escape the world, and you're not responsible for how you look, if you look beauticious or butt ugly. you're not responsible for how you feel or what you say or how you act or anything you do. it's all out of your hands.

the world is the cradle and your trap.

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a Book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We're all such products.

To both my parents, the world is a battle for attention, a war to be heard.

All these mystics, throughout history, all over the world, they all found their way to enlightenment by physical suffering.