World Quotes - Page 824

Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned.

As if there's a world that exists that you're semi-privy to yet can't quite penetrate - that's how it feels when you're starting a book.

And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, our sense of ourselves in the world.

We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world.

We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live moral lives and for there to be morality in the first place.

New York is safer than it has been - and it's getting safer. But it's never safe. As the financial and communications capital of the world, this is where terrorists want to make a statement, where they get the most bang for the buck.

Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.

The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.

In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.

Come and love me, be my apeman girl, and we will be so happy in my apeman world.

When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.

The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.

I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

As science went further and further into the external world, they ended up inside the atom where to their surprise they saw consciousness staring them in the face!

James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant social critic, he foreshadowed the destructive trends happening now in the whole Western world and beyond, while always maintaining a sense of humanistic hope and dignity. He explored palpable, yet unspoken, intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies and the inevitable, if unnameable, tensions with personal identity, assumptions, uncertainties, yearning, and questing.

If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into the book.

I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds within our own.

My portal to another world was fiction.

The science world has no such coherence, cohesion or cooperation. It's a bunch of academics who were raised on the idea of communication being a frivolous add-on.

The belief in the '70s was that music was changing the world. I never believed that it had that great an effect. The effect Madonna had on fashion and sort of mores of young girls was a bigger deal than anything Dylan may have said, even.

The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ's return, both of which are imminent.

Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.