World Quotes - Page 778

From the point of view of the relative world, merit is very important.

Whether we're in retreat or out in the world, we should try to develop the quality of awareness as much as possible.

Everyone should not be ordained, but for those who really feel that the only thing that matters in this world is the Dharma, then it is a logical step to adopt a form of life that automatically precludes worldly distractions.

The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.

Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart

For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.

People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional.

The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.

If the world knew how to use freedom without abusing it, tyranny would not exist.

For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in - Wall Street, the pop-music industry, Harvard - and what the very vague contours of the narrative might be (which typically get changed a lot through the writing process).

I wanted to better inform the world.

There is no greater legacy that we can leave our children and grandchildren than a peaceful and safer world.

The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life.

I so wreak of logic and commonsense that it is obviously very refreshing in this world of otherwise soulless politically correct denial and dishonesty. God knows America would be the greatest again if she operated like the Nugent family. No takers, no whiners, no gangsters, no dopers, no drunks, no criminals, no bloodsuckers, no excuse makers, no crybabies, no punks, no Obama supporters. My entire team are dedicated to be the absolute best that we can be and as productive as humanly possible. Wouldn't that be great if all of America were like that.

I'm not going to engage in that kind of hateful rhetoric anymore. I just can't use those harsh terms. I cannot and I will not and I encourage even my friends slash enemy on the left in the Democrat, liberal world that we have got to be civil to each other.

Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.

I've got the world on a string, sittin' on a rainbow, got the string around my finger.

The world didn’t like to look at the dark underside very often. But that didn’t change the ugliness; it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape.

It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found.

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

It's not enough to have good thoughts for the world. You must get out there! It is also really important that each person realise their own worth. If you don't think you're good enough, how can you turn around and help save the world?

The whole world`s on fire.

The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.

Fans are my favourite thing in the world