World Quotes - Page 723

In a world without air all you breathe is adventure!

I do all my work by storyboard, so as I draw the storyboard, the world gets more and more complex, and as a result, my North, South, East, West directions kind of shift and go off base, but it seems like my staff as well as the audience, doesn't quite realize that this has happened. Don't tell them about it.

Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.

But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.

We are trying to prevent a third world war.

You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.

The atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world.

Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi scheme.

Accidents and chance are words used by persons who do not think clearly when they attempt to account for certain happenings. Anyone who thinks must be convinced that in a world as orderly as this there is no room for the words accident and chance.

I (naively) thought university training would make you better in following what happens in the world.

Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers.

Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results.

It's a fact that within the space of a few decades, women have achieved a massive shift in the role they play - in the way they act in public, and in the way they have conquered areas of the working world that were until recently considered a man's domain.

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.

The media of sameness and separation represent the world in its most religious form - the structuring of the social in images.

There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the level of brutes. They are the sworn and sinister agents of Beelzebub, who yearns to conquer the world, and has his eye especially upon Tennessee.]

What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell.

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"

Jessica Seinfeld made a toast. She turned to the assembled guests. 'And you are all so lucky to be part of Gwyneth's world. Because this is the real deal. And she's invited all of you good people in here. I would never do that.'

Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of itself is closed to other beauties and the complexities of character and world.

Better that the whole world should turn against you... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.

I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.

In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.

The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.