World Quotes - Page 715

I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.

I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . . . I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world.

I'm not necessarily proud of the World Cups and the grand slams won or lost, the amount of points I scored, this record or that.

It's amazing how harmless the world can sometimes seem.

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.

The world is calling, it's now or neverland.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

We're not going to get the jack-booted thugs stomping on a human face that you get in '1984' but we might get the 'Brave New World' where the biggest problem there is how to deal with the fact that everyone is so happy...[W]hat we're going to get is a nanny-type of fascism, if we get one at all...[S]imply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.

I'm very good at what I do and there's not too many people in the world that have an answer for what I can do.

Live... More than your neighbors. Unleash yourself upon the world and go places. Go now. Giggle no,laugh.

We're physically part of the sun. The sun gives us energy, creates our world.

I have always thought that being a good American is appreciating the world, not just your own country.

I think in my world of religion, you're called to preach or you don't preach. Called by God to preach. I never been ordained by God to preach the gospel. I have a calling, it's called to perform and sing.

Parenting is the most important profession in the world.

I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.

One man interacting creatively with others can move the world.

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything

And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty, and of doing good.

With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.

I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.

George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake, and the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothing to look ahead to.

There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good.

Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

This world loses its appeal when the steps become tottering, when the hearing becomes dim, when the faded eyes cannot see as they once did. When loved ones are nearly all gone on ahead, then all the riches or fame or pleasures of this world are baubles and trash.

If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.