World Quotes - Page 720

We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned, are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating, if not excusing its crimes.

I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world.

I don't feel in any way obligated to remain current with the culture. I feel no social obligation whatsoever. I trust my morality in the narrow path I trek through the world as I work.

Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.

There's a cyclical nature to what people like in the world. Through time, things come around again.

One doesn't have to pursue unhappiness. It comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.

I don't know that I'm the best fighter in the world, but I know I can beat anybody in the world. And that's all I need to know.

I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.

I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.

As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce.

Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.

I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into book format simply because of this familiarity. Possibly in another society and another context I might have been a storyteller or who knows what.

My dad and me were incredibly close. He was an actor, and so him and I shared this whole movie-world thing closer than anyone else in the family.

The value decade is upon us. If you can't sell a top-quality product at the world's lowest price, you're going to be out of the game.

In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.

As though all the world were a bad joke and she was the only one around who knew the punchline.

I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.

The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.

Twitter is the world.

The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.

I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from the Water to the River in peace?" "But it is not your own Shire," said Gildor. "Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

It is a world of words that creates a world of things.

That's the perennial appeal of magic - that we ourselves have power and we can shape our world. I sometimes think its very analogous to having a lot of money that people think - 'cause that's kind of like a super power.

The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

Though the worship of riches is an old religion, there has never been a danger that it might become the sole religion. And yet that is what is surely going to happen in the world.