World Quotes - Page 810

Part of the reason I'm doing Us + Them tour is to play my part in trying to spread the message that cooperation is a better way to resolve conflicts than confrontation. That bridges are better than walls, that nationalism and exceptionalism is destroying our world and destroying our lives.

I didn't know the extent of American obsession with Uganda until I got there and saw it. You ride in the plane and it's filled with American missionaries. Uganda is the No. 1 destination for American missionaries in the world.

Mexico is a country we Americans should be cultivating a positive dialogue about how we work together to make ourselves more secure and more competitive vis-a-vis the rest of the world.

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.

There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying?

If you want to know your purpose, look at the unfolding of your life, because that is your gift to the world. It may not look spectacular, but nobody else has the precise life that you do. It's a gift no one else can offer.

The love of someone else is more accessible or more possible if one lives with a sense of loving embrace towards oneself because that extends out into the world.

When we are open to ourselves and our own experience, and therefore, open to the world, then the world can respond.

When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible world of meaning that sustains everything that was and ever shall be.

When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in.

Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different degrees of light and density.

My heart is in South Africa, through my mum. My mum being from here, me spending a lot of time here as well, I feel most connected to this part of the world.

It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away.

When you're attuned to Spirit, there is nothing in the outer world that matters.

When you have a chance to take the ball for the world champs, you take the ball.

Every time I toe the rubber, it's no different for me than it was in the World Series.

I am sure innovation will blossom around the world, given that the Internet and mobile platforms enable innovators anywhere in the world to reach a global market with ease.

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

Beyonce knows exactly what she wants, what she needs in her projects, where she wants to go. She's creating her own lane. There's really no one out there who can compete with her. She's in her own world.

Anytime a person has Disney World in their backyard, you know they're thinking big.

I am the world's oldest teenager. I've never lost my youthful attitude.

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

Maybe I bring people into that pop world who don't usually find themselves there because there's not enough stuff for them to get excited about otherwise.

Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.'