World Quotes - Page 658

I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world.

People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.

It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some "Symmes' Hole" by which to get at the inside at last.

We don't realise how much the world has affected us. We put God in the background.

It is always easy to divide the world into idealists and power-oriented people. The idealists are presumed to be the noble people, and the power-oriented people are the ones that cause all the world's trouble.

The world is evil only when you become its slave.

Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.

I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.

I believe that if you want to go make your mark on the world you've got to go out and do it. Don't be shy, be adventurous.

I have the best husband in the world. He's very involved.

To me, Romney is 'Our Idiot Brother', and Obama is 'The King's Speech'. You can spend all the money in the world. If you've got a bad product, it doesn't matter.

So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?

No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?

Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.

Yes, there is a Government of this changing world. The Government is not in the changing world. It is in the Realm of Permanence, and though the Realm of Permanence pervades this world of change, it cannot be seen by mortal eyes.

The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. An just so does our God to us.

Basically, I want people to feel feelings. It's too easy to go through this world being told to keep our emotions in check, as if they inhibit us in some way or another.

And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.

We intend to make this world the most beautiful, glorious planet that any human being can imagine and, really, beyond anything any human being can imagine.

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

Cats are people, and the sooner the world accepts that fact, the better off the world will be.

Why I enjoyed doing Iron Man because it opened me up to this new world where fans are so passionate.