World Quotes - Page 802

I just feel that the East and the West are two different worlds. I sometimes get saddened when I see that very few writers of color are published or reviewed in East Coast presses and magazines.

No one has proof that I know of, that a higher power exists, yet a major portion of the world believes in it and relies on it in faith in trust, in what that is. Where is the science in that? And yet you have incredible belief in that.

Back when I was very small, and we had this bathroom with these sort of paneled mirrors on the side. And I would just sit there - because it was the only warm room in the house. And I would - if I was in a bad place - I would go to my imaginary place with these mirrors, and create this entire other world to sort of help level out what I was dealing with.

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

Make good thy standing place, and move the world.

Tolerance is an essential value in the modern world, and we have daily reminders of how awful the alternatives to it are. And despite its paradoxical flavor, there are many good arguments - moral, prudential, and epistemic - in favor of tolerance, and none that I know of against it.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

The U.S. has and still is cooperating with various military dictatorships around the world. Obviously we would prefer to see them democratized, but we are doing it because we have national interests, whether it's working with Pakistan on Afghanistan or whatever.

We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.

The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.

Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.

Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.

I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.

Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.

This is that rest this vain world lends, To end in death that all things ends.

I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'

The only person I ever hurt was myself and even that I did to the minimum. If you can do that and you're still functioning, you're the luckiest person in the world.

One cannot achieve peace without realizing justice, realize justice without seeking out the truth, seek out the truth without practicing freedom. So living and thinking free is the root of achieving peace in our world.

You're the best in the world, so you deserve those little perks along the way if you can get them.