World Quotes - Page 902

Like the best convenience store in the world, / the mind is always open.

I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.

I was very, very lucky because I started swimming when most of the landmarks in the world had not been swum.

Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.

When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to rise to 9.4 billion. What's more, the Earth's resources aren't growing; they're decreasing - and rapidly.

But, said Alice, the the world has absolutely no sens, who's stopping us from inventing one?

Books were in the world; the world was in books.

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have to figure it all out by yourself. And even after you've figured it out and done it, you'll never know whether you were right or wrong. You'll never know if you put the ring in the right volcano, or if things might have gone better if you hadn't.

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

The real world is horrible.

Women have to be a lot smarter and brighter and have to work a lot harder to prepare themselves. They have to watch what they do and how they behave. It's not a free world yet.

The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.

Modern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before.

Likewise, the world of action, of politics, is reduced to a conflict of views about how to keep the cycle of production and consumption going. Questions of ultimate purpose are excluded from the public world.

I can't be the only person that's like, "Why am I in love with this guy just because he makes me feel bad?" I can't be the only person in the world who's had that feeling.

Ghosts are a metaphor for memory and remembrance and metaphorically connect our world to the world we cannot know about.

We realize that if we live in a world that depends totally on CBS.com, we'd be dead.

We sit for a week and listen to an extraordinary amount of people talk about what they do in the intelligence world. It's pretty overwhelming.

Here at the bottom of the world, everything was upside down.

I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world.

Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.

You saw Britain back in the early days of sailing ships. They were the sea power, the controlled the seas and they had colonies all over the world and then you can look at history and watch the way that their empire kind of crumbled. I certainly don't want that to happen to the United States in space technology.

I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success.

Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and institutions, are taking action to address climate change, and we expect them to do their part this December in Paris at the U.N. climate talks.