World Quotes - Page 1016

If you want to know the world, sometimes you have to get out and roll around.

I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK because he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And not only that--he has wisdom and patience of his own, buried deep inside his being, which will only reveal themselves over time and will always carry him through any trial. He is a gift from God to all of us.

Oh, cold world -- I have grown so weary of you and all your horrible bathrooms.

It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.

Travel is similar to therapy. You can go to the best psychologist in the world for ten years. If you don't feel like actively shifting anything in your life, there is nothing that person can do to change you.

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

As for anticipation, you never know what to expect of a book. They're like kids: you bring them into the world, fret about them, and then at some point there's no other option but to turn them lose and see how they do.

I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.

Princess Bibesco delighted in a semi-ideal world - a world which, though having a counterpart in her experience, was to a great extent brought into being by her own temperament and, one might say, flair.

Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence.

Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

Brooklyn has become a brand, and it represents something, and there is this tension between the old and new world.

Poetry isn't as relevant in the Western world as it is in Afghanistan. And not many people make time for something that doesn't feel relevant.

We know what war means, and we know what poverty means. We need to develop a better model for reaching out to the world than we have.

I'm not greedy. I just want one person. The world is so big and there are so many people. But I only want one.

What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the servants offer and had said to him instead, “let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be - let me be a woman'?

Today with the Internet, I search for film and video archives online. It's an ever-growing moveable visual feast of delicacies from all around the world.

The world has conducted a massive macro-economic experiment since the cataclysm of 2008. In Europe, the fans of austerity have had their chance, and the results have been a disaster.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

It was so clear from the beginning - what [Macon Blair] wanted to make [in "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"].

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.

What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.