World Quotes - Page 788

When I was young, Stephen Hawking wasn't the world's most famous physicist. The fame didn't arrive until the publication of "A Brief History of Time," by which time I was in my late teens. When I was a child, he was well known among physicists, but they are a fairly select, serious bunch, not much given to celebrity idolizing.

I don't know if for sure in absolute terms if Jim Flaherty is the best Finance Minster in the world, but I am sure that he is the best Finance Minster per inch in the world.

The fact of the matter is, we have the strongest banking system in the world.

I will strive to make this not the highest-spending country in the world, but instead the lowest taxing o-ne.

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

Sometimes there just isn't enough vomit in the world.

A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world.

A true inner world is often revealed by style and sensibility as much as by what appears to be confession.

I don't let a poem go into the world unless I feel that I've transformed the experience in some way. Even poems I've written in the past that appear very personal often are fictions of the personal, which nevertheless reveal concerns of mine. I've always thought of my first-person speaker as an amalgam of selves, maybe of other people's experiences as well.

I was thrown into the fashion world, dating models - and you'd read about me dating a new starlet every month. That's just where my life was. But I've grown up a lot.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

We think we see the world as it is, when in fact we see the world as we are.

You can change the world. Please don't do that, OK? Some of us like the way things are going now.

No one has any idea what's going to happen. Not even Elon Musk. That's why he's building those rockets. He wants a 'Plan B' on another world.

It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except 'be there.' I just want to make him stop hurting, but I can't. So I just follow him around whenever he wants to show me his world.

He’s my whole world.” “Don’t ever say that about anyone again. Not even me.

The art of dharma practice requires commitment, technical accomplishment, and imagination. As with all arts, we will fail to realize its full potential if any of these three are lacking. The raw material of dharma practice is ourself and our world, which are to be understood and transformed according to the vision and values of the dharma itself. This is not a process of self- or world- transcendence, but one of self- and world- creation.

...inner spiritual transformation is just as dependent upon the effect of our economic life upon the world as transformations in the world are dependent upon spiritual re-orientation.

I'm walking this walk and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

I wish the world would swallow us here, whole, in this moment. And that's when it hits me that this - this - is falling in love.

Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for.

The sets on 'Defiance' are incredible. I've never really seen a set like this, where the world is so built around us. There's not too much left for us to have to imagine.

Imagine the world we would live in if we dared to see all of life as sacred - unconditionally.

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.