World Quotes - Page 620

One's character is one's habitual way of behaving. We all have patterns of behavior or habits, and often we are quite unaware of them. When Socrates urged us to Know thyself, he clearly was directing us to come to know our habitual ways of responding to the world around us.

Once you go on stage you're essentially creating the world that people want to participate in. The worst thing you can do is go out on stage with the idea that you're going to communicate something you've learned and if you do it really well, they'll approve. If you go out in an approval process, you will be so nervous and so preoccupied you'll never get to the heart of what it is you want to make music with.

Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.

What a rude Lump our World is that we are so apt to dote upon.

During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced since consciousness emerged from its Paleolithic phase. Even the most primitive tribes have a larger vision of the universe, of our place and functioning within it, a vision that extends to celestial regions of space and to interior depths of the human in a manner far exceeding the parameters of our world of technological confinement.

No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.

There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

One person can't change the world. But Thom Yorke can, because he's two people. Both of them are Thom Yorke.

One joins the movement in a valueless world, Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled, One moves as well, always toward, toward.

Everything I am going to say to you is the child of a conversation. [...] That is the aspect of conversation that particularly excites me: how conversation changes the way you see the world, and even changes the world.

With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.

The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.

The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again.

What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause with the world against themselves, and the most alienated condition of all, the omnipresence of commodities, their own conversion into appendages of machinery, is for them a mirage of closeness.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.

What you deny to others will be denied to you, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself; all your words and actions define the world you want to live in.

We have to make sure that we are a force for peace and stability in the world, and that we're prepared to defend freedom and the security of the American people

What is the world coming to, with these modern women? A man can't tell them what to do.

Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving

Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.

His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.