World Quotes - Page 689

Your body Hurts me as the world hurts God

When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the world on your shoulders.

I'm not going to be an interpreter at the U.N. I'm not going to live in Africa on a farm or whatever, but I am going to see the world through those eyes when I make those films.

The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.

The United States is the lone superpower of the world. We have a stake in Rwanda's success because we have a stake in the world's stability.And we have got to understand the need for a paradigm shift. This is not about "might makes right." This is about a democratic movement that pulls out the voices of all of the people so that they come up with a fair and healthy and stable and sustainable society. And if we can learn those lessons in a place like Rwanda, then we can apply them around the world.

Rwanda is an example in terms of the transformation of the rights of women. But if you talk to almost any Africanist at the State Department or the World Bank, when you say the word Africa, they think women.

If we look at governments around the world, we see that the higher the women's percentage is in parliament, the more funding there is for education and for health care as compared to buying arms, for example.

I would like to see many times more dollars going into the education for girls. The World Bank has some wonderful statistics in terms of the importance of educating girls as a way of lifting whole societies out of poverty.

This world is not for cowards.

In the world take always the position of the giver.

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.

We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.

The whole world has become a crowded theater. You could say something here in New York and have it be heard in Afghanistan and potentially trigger riots and it may be something that to you was innocent or was in jest or was satirical and it's taken out of context. I mean, a joke, a tweet or a blog post can make it halfway around the world before the context gets its boots on.

Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.

The world of physics is essentially the real world construed by mathematical abstractions, and the world of sense is the real world construed by the abstractions which the sense-organs immediately furnish. To suppose that the "material mode" is a primitive and groping attempt at physical conception is a fatal error in epistemology.

One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful.

By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.

To collect photographs is to collect the world.

I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.

You’re the most important thing in the world to me. I know you don’t believe it, but I’m going to prove it to you.

Figure out what you are meant to contribute to the world and make sure you contribute it

A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!

The whole world can believe in you but that won't mean a thing if you don't believe in yourself too.

Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.