World Quotes - Page 510

One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.

We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.

This must be your point of view: that the world and all it contains is perfect, though not completed.

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents.

I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

The European Union's enlargement is part of the natural process of integration and globalisation that is underway in the world today.

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations in the physical world rather than the psychological one.

Rather than attend to a world considered as if it's out there, I have to start to attend to me. That led to some things that I never wanted it to lead to, person as a sort of psychological miasma. I started to get wrapped up in self, and then, for the first time, self did become an autobiographical self.

Once during the mission I was asked by ground control what I could see. "What do I see?" I replied. "Half a world to the left, half a world to the right, I can see it all. The Earth is so small."

The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.

To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

We live in a very complex world.

[W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the vain applause of the world, which Our Lord so assiduously avoided and so often recommends us to shun, and that you labor in earnest to acquire true and solid virtues.

Fashion is, perhaps by necessity, in a world of its own - one that only rarely overlaps with anything resembling real life. This fantasy and exoticism is part of its appeal, of course.

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations, all places where wealth is not created, but analyzed, critiqued, and lavishly spent.