Quotes About World

Beloved men, know that this is the truth:1 This world is in haste, and it approaches its end, and therefore always in the world The longer (it is), the worse (it gets) …

The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.

Freedom is not found in escaping "this" or possessing "that" . . . Real freedom is the active understanding that the world of "this and that" is a window into a higher order of reality not limited by the opposites.

We cannot know the future, my friend. It claims so much to imagine we can. And the world is not broken any more than it always, always is.

If this was the world as the god-or gods-had made it, then mortal man, this mortal man, could acknowledge that and honour the power and infinite majesty that lay within it, but he would not say it was right, or bow down as if he were only dust or a brittle leaf blown from and autumn tree, helpless in the wind.

It was, Jelena though, another kind of arrogance to believe you could understand the way the world was made. It could not be done, there was too much. You needed to be open to it, though, to what your life gave you and demanded.

The world didn't allow you clean, clear judgments very often, it seemed to Daiyan. He envied those who thought otherwise, who lived otherwise.

Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the illusion of changing the world.

The lesson of her days, Dianora thought, was simply this: that love was not enough. Whatever the songs of the troubadours might say. Whatever hope it might seem to offer, love was simply not enough to bridge the chasm in her world.

Rivers do usually begin in almost imperceptible ways. The great events and changes of the world under heaven also frequently start that way, their origins recognized only by those troubling themselves to look back.

Surely, surely, if we are not simple animals that live to fight, there must be a reason for bloodshed." "And the reason is? for you?" "Power, Jehane. A bastion. A way to be as secure as this uncertain world allows, with a chance to build something for my sons to hold onto after I die.

The world is not something to be understood. It is vanity, illusion to even try.

Here the world is all the world may be

There was a new hole in the world where sorrow could enter.

malgré tout leur fameux cynisme (ou peut-être à cause de lui), les Sarantins étaient presque toujours d'une nature émotive et passionnée, comme si vivre au centre du monde donnait du relief et de l'importance à chaque événement de leur existence.

younger son of a merchant? What was his life about? Trade? Clever, profitable dealings? He was from a city-state that flourished by letting no one hate them enough to do anything disagreeable. Where you are situated in the world

Change and chance are the way of the world.

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O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a world in the embrace of God!

and the world's possibilities were hidden from her like the west bank of the river in an autumn fog.

Hey, you know why God invented alcohol? So the Irish wouldn't take over the world.

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

In a world so full of men who hurt the truth and get paid at so much for every groan we hear coming from it, it is a pleasant and dignified thing to spend some time at home making your very own lies for your very own bemusement.

Being trapped in the San José "is a test that God set before us so that we can think about the things we've done in our lives that were wrong," the Pastor says. "If we get out of this place, it will be like being reborn into the world.