World Quotes - Page 813

Corruption appears to be a universal phenomenon that lays its own imperious claims on the world, and therefore it is the duty of all nations to prepare themselves against its onslaught by taking proper precautions.

New York seems very very foreign to me, like more foreign than almost anywhere in America, and almost anywhere in the world, I find it like one of the most overwhelming places.

I like being a part of David Cronenberg’s world, I feel very at home there

The most embarassing is when friends ask you to meet up with them and you have to tell them "Sorry I can't go to that place" because you're fully aware photographers will be waiting for you there. I feel like such a weasle when things like that happen, like the world has to revolve around me.

THe world now has so many problems that if Moses had come down from Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd carry would be aspirin.

And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes Of youth, in manhood's more imposing cares.

As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?

Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears: substance is a "stable pattern of inorganic values." The problem then disappears. The world of objects and the world of values is unified.

...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.

To approach the badlands is to find a gap in the known and expected world.

If communist unions ever gain a position to exercise influence in the transport lanes of the world, the free world will have suffered a staggering blow.

Maybe there would be a Tinker city someday, too. They would buy up all of the colored dye, and everyone else in the world would ave to wear brown.' -Mat

If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.

I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard.

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not. -Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.

Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world.

The culture of chefs is a melting pot, and I always say this - if we could put all the heads of state around a table, each representing their food culture, and then each take one bite of the other's and pass it to the right, and then explain the ideals and culture around those bites, our world problems would be easier to solve.

Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.