World Quotes - Page 759

There is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace vivacity acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau monde; which, in the commerce of world, supplies the place of natural suavity and good-humour, but is purchased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of character.

The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic.

If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!

You can't say that people don't love music anymore because they do. If we say that all the music stopped, if music stops now, the world can't handle that. We need our music.

The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy.

Creating a really believable world is just insanely hard

I have got to say, I'm a businessman, I work in business, worked with some very large corporations around the world, and I have never seen a better operating machine than what the New South Wales right machine is.

Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

The rest of the world really likes our stuff pretty well. It's just we buy so damn much of what they produce.

For some reason, people take their cues from price action rather than from values. What doesn't work is when you start doing things that you don't understand or because they worked last week for somebody else. The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.

If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world.

AIG would be doing fine today. It was one of the ten largest companies in the United States in terms of market value, over 200 billion, the most respected insurer and everything in the world.

Obviously the world is moving away from high carbon energy to low carbon energy, and eventually moving away toward renewable energy. So it is in the interest of Africa to move towards that, because that's where the world is moving.

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

There is something beautiful and permanent in the world, and that is the love that a person can have for another human being.

It doesn't matter what kind of world we live in as long as we have each other.

If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the spleen.

I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that they see the world and they structure the world.

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.

For no change comes calmly over the world.