World Quotes - Page 760

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.

Whatever truth you contribute to the world will be one lucky shot in a thousand misses. You cannot be right by holding your breath and taking precautions.

Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.

In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.

Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

Islam in the Arab world coexists with Indonesian, Pakistani and Turkish Islam. There is limited solidarity, even within the Arab world.

Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.

America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order.

But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.

I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.

The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, can defend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend Upon it.

This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out Of dirt . . . It is not possible for the moon To blot this with its dove-winged blendings.

Words of the world are the life of the world.

Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the making of the world, The buzzing world and lisping firmament.

The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other.

The word is the making of the world

On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.

The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

Only those who do not fill the places they are holding slow the progress of the world