World Quotes - Page 299

how seasonably leaf and blossom uncurl and living things arrange their death, while someone from afar off blows birthday candles for the world.

A poet is deeply conflicted and it's in his work that he reconciles those deep conflicts. The place is the harbor. It doesn't set the world in order, you know, it's the place of reconciliation. It's the Consolamentum, the kiss of peace.

In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.

When you get off stage, the audience should know a little bit about you. Not where you are from, but how you see the world. And that's the difference between like a Chris Rock joke, and like an open-miker.

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

People who annoy people are the luckiest people in the world.

The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment.

The false man is more false to himself than to any one else. He may despoil others, but himself is the chief loser. The world's scorn he might sometimes forget, but the knowledge of his own perfidy is undying.

Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.

The world of immediate experience the world in which we find ourselves living must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

Let us fashion together a new world order.

The university has become a place that prepares you for the fights in the world.

God's Kingdom is a place of abundance where every generous act overflows its original bounds and becomes part of the unbounded grace of God at work in the world.

All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each other by the features of their faces; they illuminate each other by the fierce preference which is akin to madness; they assert the reality of illusions; and for a moment they change falsehood into truth.

I have witnessed the takeover of my world by plastic.

Contrary to economists' beliefs, the informal sectors of the world's economies, in total, are predominant, and the institutionalized, monetized sectors grow out of them and rest upon them, rather than the reverse.

The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

Darwinism is under official protection throughout the world. No other ideology in history, no other idea, has ever been kept under such strict official protection. To make any kind of statement criticizing Darwinism causes an official reaction.

That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.

Although I hold the highest civil honour in the world, I have always regarded my rank and title as a Past Grand Master of Masons the greatest honour that had ever come to me.

When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.

The moment you value yourself, the whole world values you.

The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves.