World Quotes - Page 687

We want people to go to the movies. But the reality is that this is a digital world and we have to adapt to that reality.

Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it.

No world is without sacrifices. But if we produce casualties, we would also sustain casualties of our own.

The world can’t save itself. That’s the message of Christmas.

The end of the world begins in the sea we love.

We should not try to design a better world. We should make better feedback loops.

The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you're an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.

There could never be innocence in a world without justice.

In chaotic situations, I feel like I can take a breath and look around and assess the situation and see the big picture. Going through the traumatic time that I did in my life, that's also given me even more of a breather in life to just be like, "I know everything's going to be fine. Even if this is the worst show in the world, no matter what happens, everything's going to be fine." It's an accumulation of things.

You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.

Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can assign them their duty. The Republic of Letters is more ancient than monarchy, and of far higher character in the world than the vassal court of Britain.

The whole world has risen in Christ... If God is 'all in all,' then everything is in fact paradise, because it is filled with the glory and presence of God, and nothing is any more separated from God.

In an ideal world people would know the words just for the show and then forget them right after.

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

In the hyperconnected world, there is only “good” “better” and “best.

More terrorists and extremists have been captured or killed in Pakistan than in any place in the world.

The great soul of this world is just.

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it into silk, or stories.

If you see a biker chick hanging out with a group of bikers and associated with them, stay away. You'll know right away if a biker chick is free; if she's with someone, she's right by his side. Getting with somebody's old lady is a big no-no. That's more serious than anything in that world.

[Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You forced the world to give it to you, no matter the price, and the price is and always will be high... People say you don't find witchcraft; witchcraft finds you. But you've found it, even if at the time you didn't know what it was you were finding, and you grabbed it by its scrawny neck and made it work for you.