World Quotes - Page 776

The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things about him, even in his most secret innervations.

In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.

The world gets better as soon as people start doing exactly what they're great at.

I think just as a person, if you say you follow Christ, you have to stand up for the injustices that are going on in the world.

The point we are making is that the general global messages have been communicated, about the politics of South Africa, about the economy in general, all of these general questions. The rest of the world understands these things and are saying, let's now come to the specific things so that even we, as big corporate chiefs from around the world, can assist in these areas, which you have decided are your priority areas.

Of course we run a very open economy, and therefore what happens in the rest of the world, in economic terms, obviously has an impact on us.

I am a Mormon woman, I am not orthodox. It is the lens through which I see the world. I hear the Tabernacle Choir and it still makes me weep.

We're human, this is our world, and I think we learn that that which is most personal is most general. And so, in a sense, we disappear into this larger world.

Maybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world.

Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.

It's beautiful," said Mort softly. "What is it?" THE SUN IS UNDER THE DISC, said Death. "Is it like this every night?" EVERY NIGHT, said Death. NATURE'S LIKE THAT. "Doesn't anyone know?" ME. YOU. THE GODS. GOOD, ISN'T IT? "Gosh!" Death leaned over the saddle and looked down at the kingdoms of the world. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY.

The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his.

Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is a lot more comp-li-cated than it looks from the ooutside.

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But if you studied them, if you found out about them... you could use them, you could change them.

They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.

If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.

As we all know, the Discworld is a flat planet - like a geological pizza, but without the anchovies.

It's a god-eat-god world.

Don't you *ever* let go?" "I haven't yet." "Why?" "I suppose... because in this world, after everyone panics, there's always got to be someone to tip the wee out of the shoe.

The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.

The real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got to the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities.

They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.

A world like that, which exists only because the gods enjoy a joke, must be a place where magic can survive. And sex too, of course.

There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.