World Quotes - Page 660

And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (“The Testimony of the Suns”)

When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.

If we are generous enough, we can stretch our souls everywhere and everywhen else. If we succeed in doing so, we shall discover that our present embraces the past and the future and that the whole world is our province.

Columbus gave the world another world.

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world.

The world is full of cravens who pretended to be heroes.

There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.

The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.

The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour.

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

The base of evil in the world is religion of any kind

It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

It seems to me there's this grand mathematical world out there, and I am wandering through it and discovering fascinating phenomena that often totally suprise me. I do not think of mathemaatics as invented but rather discovered.

The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me.

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

Buddha nature is not something that we possess, nor is it something we can be. It is the nature of things, just as they are. To realize our buddha nature, to live in accord with this awakening, is the truth that alleviates suffering in the world.

Programmes like the BES are what make the difference between a good university & one that is truly outstanding. I believe this programme will be invaluable for the future sustainability of Singapore and the region; perhaps even the world, if others follow our lead.

Fear distorts the world. Fear sees demons where only shadows dwell.

It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world.

The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.