World Quotes - Page 851

When you've been initiated, you can stand in the world differently. And I think it is up to all of us, we can have cheerleaders, we can have supporters, but it comes down to us as individuals, how do we now proceed? Do we have the tools to proceed?

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

I'd love to do a film with Mariah. But it would have to be a comedy. She's the funniest woman in the world, she just cracks me up all the time.

Dade Kincaid is not afraid of the things of which the world is made.

Gandhi was such an important figure to the pacifists of the '30s, and he was such an extraordinary embodiment of nonviolence, that I thought it was necessary to have him in there. When he would say something about the war, it was to some extent news - and he was sure to have a response that was different from that of other world leaders.

I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow.

I was able to bring my process of doing improv with actors into the animation world, which was fun.

To claim the World Bank is just an extension of US foreign policy is just wrong.

Fortunately poorer countries, such as China, are showing leadership and beginning to demonstrate to the world how to invest in low-carbon growth.

A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We've been around only 100,000 years as human beings. We don't know what that's like.

In the end, you really want to make the best film that you can, and in the reality of the filmmaking world, you have things like budgets.

because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching for her, and she knew it was growing angrier at every passing day.

You're probably the most boring teenager in the world.

At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it.

You were honest and hardworking and kind. You were polite and patient and more mature than any guy I’d dated before. And when we were together, you listened in a way that made me feel like I was the only woman in the world. You made me feel complete and spending time with you just seemed right.

There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.

He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.

He didn't believe in a God who sifted through prayers, answering some and ignoring others, no matter how unworthy or worthy a person might be. Instead, he preferred to believe in a God who bestowed all people with gifts and abilities and placed them in an imperfect world; only then was faith tested, only then could faith be earned.

The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.

...there are people who added goodness to the world and people who lived to destroy it.

The world is infinitely more interesting than any of my opinions about it.

Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.

By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self.

In fact, we've entered a world which is arguably much more dangerous than [being] eyeball to eyeball with the USSR.

The naive thing I suppose is simply that we thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we had reached the end of history and we were entering a brave new world minus the Soviet Union where everything was going to be peaches and cream.