World Quotes - Page 1019

Americans hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.

We have to call mass surveillance mass surveillance. We can't let governments around the world redefine, and sort of weasel their way out of it by saying this is bulk collection.

I'm ultimately satisfied that we know a little bit more about how the world really works.

There are cyber threats out there, this is a dangerous world, and we have to be safe, we have to be secure no matter the cost.

The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness.

When I look at the directors that I really love, who really develop their films over time, they're almost always the ones who go back again and again and again at the same investigations. I think that when somebody has a theme they go after, it's fun to service that. It's like, "I know you now. I know what you go at." It helps you locate yourself a little bit quicker in their world.

The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.

Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the world became sinful and evil

If human nature eventually is going to take the place of nature everywhere, those of us who have been naturalists will have to transpose the faith in nature which is inherent in the profession to a faith in man-if necessary, man alone in the world.

Our sense that things are transient, that everything is passing and then if you want to save something from the endless flux of experience and the world's movement, you have to set down a stake and try and make something that will last.

It is the greatest feeling in the world. When we shine, we defy death for the moment. We enter into a state of immersion in the craft we ply, a state in which we become one with what we do.

Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes?

Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this.

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

I'm interested in the real world.

It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.

Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.

I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.