World Quotes - Page 708

You cant not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.

Any day alive in this world is a charmed life.

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad, one doesn't so much discover the hidden Wonders of the World, but the hidden wonders of the individuals with whom one is traveling. They may turn out to afford a stirring view, a rather dull landscape, or a terrain so treacherous one finds it's best to forget the entire affair and return home.

It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the opinion that spacetime has more than 4 dimensions, that particles can move faster than light, or that human life can be prolonged indefinitely.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

We do have the ability to shift our paradigms - by shifting our belief systems, by working on ourselves, by looking very closely at how we show up in the world. It's why I'm into health and wellness. It's why my partner and I are very focused on creating a life that is about being connected; it's about being present. Because my life was probably so much in the past. I was so fearful. I was so fearful of the future because I was so scared of my past. So if you can work towards being present, then you can shift.

The world is in trouble. Many have prayed. God sent help. God sent you.

The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.

Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.

In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.

I haven't left a mark on the world, but is that so bad? Considering how deeply the world has marked me?

No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the earth, is coequal with life, outlasts death, and reaches onward into heaven.

There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person.

The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.

Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together - they compose the world.

Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more service than all the cosmetics and fine clothes in the world.

Philanthropy can be integrated into business. I believe strongly that companies can be incredible agents of good in the world.

It is strange to have everybody in the world still think of you as a child.

Today the whole world depends on communism for its salvation, and China is no exception.

God knows nothing gets accomplished in the world these days without terrorism.

There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.