World Quotes - Page 774

All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

Next to being right in this world, the best of all things is to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will come out somewhere. If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently wrong, you must, some of these days, have the extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a fact, and that sets you all straight again.

There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.

He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world.

I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.

A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in.

Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water. And this is in a world where we know that synthetic fertilizers and pesticides are toxic, and water is more and more scarce. Golf could do a lot more.

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Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.

Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich.

In a hyper-connected world where average is over, there is one thing we know absolutely for sure: Every good job will require more education.

Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.

The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world.

Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?

It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.

Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.

There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?

If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.

Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars!

Without the smile from partial beauty won, O what were man? - a world without a sun.

The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.

Throughout our world the cry of the poor so often goes unheard. The prophets harangued Israel and Judah unceasingly about the powerless and marginalized, the overlooked widows, orphans, and "sojourners in our midst," who are still with us today as single mothers, hungry children, and helpless immigrants, wraiths invisible in our prosperous societies.

...tis a dangerous thing to ingage the authority of Scripture in disputes about the Natural World, in opposition to Reason; lest Time, which brings all things to light, should discover that to be evidently false which we had made Scripture to assert.