World Quotes - Page 670

Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.

You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.

Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don't.

In a mad world, it is the mad who are sane.

I admit that when I think of the money one could make from all this, I get a little twinge. But I'm pretty happy with nerd values: Get yourself a comfortable living, then do a little something to change the world.

I do wish I ruled the world, I think it'd be a better place.

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

I'm not the most technically savvy person in the world. Like, I'm not good at troubleshooting when stuff happens to my digital music.

I've been happy with my life. Also very lucky. I lead two lives - businessman and racer - and it feels like the best of both worlds.

I believed Afghanistan was always going to be hard. It's the fifth poorest country in the world. And when you fly over it, you realize that there's not much there. And, of course, it has the problem, too, of being on that border with Pakistan in basically an ungoverned region that has given the terrorists a staging ground. So it's a very difficult place. But I do believe that the mission there can succeed if success is defined as helping the Afghans to prevent the Taliban from being an existential threat to the Afghan government.

He smiled, she smiled, they knew right away, this was the day they'd waited for their whole lives, for a moment the whole world revolved around one boy & one girl.

I want to make albums that are like a Murakami novel or a Terrence Malick film - something that explicitly states its own world.

The Bronx are great. I have a lot of respect for those guys, they know more about music and how that world works than most of the players out there.

My heart has always leaned towards England, and with the close friendship of Winston [Churchill], the hero who brought hope to the world, I could not imagine a happier life for myself.

The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character will be more rested when you resume playing, a mode that temporarily speeds up your leveling.

In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume instead of our freedom to find our place in the world.

There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

... dissatisfaction with one's self and dissatisfaction with the world - is necessary - it is one of the prime things that keeps the artist going on - that drives him - happiness, as such, must come in between times, as best it can.

A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.

There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.

The world is not the illusion. It's you who are the illusion.

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.