World Quotes - Page 777

All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.

There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.

If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM? "Yes! The sun would have risen just the same, yes?" NO "Oh, come on. You can't expect me to believe that. It's an astronomical fact." THE SUN WOULD NOT HAVE RISEN. ... "Really? Then what would have happened, pray?" A MERE BALL OF FLAMING GAS WOULD HAVE ILLUMINATED THE WORLD.

THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.

The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.

Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

Nobody went to see Tideland! I was hoping people would get angry about it but those that saw it didn't want to talk about it. This is the world we're living in, people don't want to discuss things that are actually worth discussing.

It's the shock of the world if you allow yourself to disconnect from the world and forget it's out there, how noisy it is, how busy it is, how invasive it is.

Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world

You haven't experienced anything until you've been to Africa. You know the world is bigger than you are after you see Africa.

Mind alone is the cause of the bondage or freedom of the soul. By the attachment of the mind to the world we become bound; by the devotion of the mind to God presence within as the Soul of every soul, we become free.

For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.

A lot of people have to deal with the feeling that their worlds are caving in.

It doesn't matter what people say about me, whether they're in Philly, or whether they're in San Francisco... all across the world.

It is a great honor for me to be presented the award by Mikhail Gorbachev and also to be acknowledged with the World Actress Award at the Women World Awards Gala 2005.

For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.

What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.

But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.

The Logos is a voice heard, in the head. And the Logos was the hand on the rudder of human civilization for centuries, up until, in fact, the collapse of the ancient mystery religions and the ascendancy of Christianity to the status of a world religion.

I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.

I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.

Our relative being is what rules our relative world.