World Quotes - Page 1024

I would be the last person on earth to complain about what I do - I feel very fortunate and I know there are a million jobs in the world that are much, much harder - but it's not always an easy or glamorous thing to do, that's for sure.

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.

Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.

The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.

Being offended by things is the world's big hobby at the moment. It's almost taken over from wearing goatee beards.

In the real world, if you're in a car chase, you're going to hit a million things and your car is going to end up a total wreck by the end.

A mystic is someone who aches for, continually searches for, direct contact with God; contact not mediated through the emotions or intellect, but a full melding of spirit and will, believing that this is not only possible but is the entire point of life in this world.

I have a Twitter and have followers from all over the world. It's pretty overwhelming.

...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.

But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues

don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that - and it's true.

And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.

People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.

Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.

I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself.

stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.

The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.

That's what I wanted for myself for even just a little while-to be unaware of the rest of the world. I needed some time.

All politicians are not the same. I've never felt that way. What is the same is that voters get very excited about new faces, like Clinton and Blair - and they have unrealistic expectations that the world will change overnight. A cynical old hand like myself knows that it won't.

My father was in the First World War.

Music attacks my inner ear like an antagonist, it's not my world.

I don't think that Women's Liberation will change much though -- not because there is anything wrong with their aims, but because it is already clear that the whole world is being shaken into a new pattern by the cataclysms we are living through: probably by the time we are through, if we do get through at all, the aims of Women's Liberation will look very small and quaint.

What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.

The food world is more crowded these days, but I think that there are more opportunities.