World Quotes - Page 711

In the last quarter of the 20th century, Britons have been understandably obsessed with the problem of having too little power in the world. In the third quarter of the 18th century, by contrast, their forebears were perplexed by the problem of having acquired too much power too quickly over too many people.

Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?

The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.

As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world - and they're coming - it's better to - be inside the tent and figure out what they're doing and to work hand in hand with them as opposed to saying, 'You know what, the automobile is not going to work. I'm going to stick to my horse and carriage,' you know.

If I'm not with a butch everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world thinking I'm straight. I've worked hard to be discriminated against as a lesbian

When I finally realized that I didn't want to be a butch, I wanted to sleep with a butch, a whole new world opened up before my eyes.

I'm interested in ways of writing about the social world that don't assassinate the life that's in it

We Jews had more power than you Americans had during the War [World War I].

I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

You and I are going to change the world.

If we continue to stay focused on our mission and not get sidetracked with everything else we stand a chance at really changing this world.

Without a single shot we've managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity.

It is important to have someone that supports you and encourage you, someone that makes you feel that you are unstoppable, that you can do anything in the world because you have him.

I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.

I get mail from people all over the world now from people who tell me that they didn't really understand Down syndrome, but because of me they have read about it and studied it and now they know a lot more about it.

Reporting is pretty vital to me. It keeps me connected to the world. A 40-hour-per-week day job may be less feasible as time goes on.

I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.

He who treasures his body as much as the world can care for the world.

He who holds balance...has attained the highest post in the world.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.

Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.

The wise person dines on something more subtle: He eats the understanding that the named was born from the unnamed, that all being flows from non-being, that the describable world emanates from an indescribable source.

The service of bringing light to a troubled world must never end.