World Quotes - Page 286

We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep your eyes open, you see this damned-to-hell world you got born into, and you ask yourself, 'What life can I live that will let me breathe in & out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?

For my sake, the entire world was created.

We're a new world and it's not pretty. It's going to be for the brave to figure out how to survive in this.

The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.

When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.

Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.

INADMISSIBLE- Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence.

The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.

I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they unconsciously assume their most characteristic pose, which in a way involves all their character and social standing - what the world has done to them and their retaliation.

The bourgeois stands like a question mark, Speechless, like the hungry cur, The ancient world stands there behind him, A mongrel dog, afraid to stir.

The first step on the path to positive change is acknowledgement that change is necessary and possible. Open yourself to the possibility of seeing the world in a new way. What do you have to lose?

All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.

The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke.

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.

The Munay-Ki is your invitation to dream an entire new world into being.

To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.