World Quotes - Page 917

Capitalism, the ogre of those protesting Wall Street, has suffered a public relations crisis in the wake of the global economic collapse. But any remedy to the systemic corruption that led to the collapse should not displace recognition that capitalism creates wealth. Capitalism, and no other economic system, has raised millions from poverty around the world.

Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.

If I were a supervillain, I would end capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia... but I guess that's a little too obvious and not villain-y enough. Because that's actually being a superhero. I would break down poverty with my machete; I would end world hunger.

I'm living in a world where there are LGBTQ straight alliances at high schools. I feel pretty psyched on that.

Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about challenging capitalism? How are you going to challenge capitalism if you're wasted?

We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond

The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer.

My heart is heavy, she thought. It’s not just a saying. It is what is—heavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my whole being. How can I even stand straight and look out upon the world? I am doubled over into myself and, for all the weight, find only emptiness.

Perhaps it does not matter so very much what it is one loves in this world. But love something one must.

I'm not naturally a person that wants to exercise, but I find running is something I can do wherever I am in the world.

In this world, everyone is friends with everyone else. In a way.

It's more fun to think that there are other worlds.

There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world.

in this curious world there are certain beings to whom it is given to say of all things with naïve faith, not 'I shall seek,' but 'I shall find.

In my kind of reporting work, you don't parachute in after some big, terrible event, which is important and has to be covered, but offers only a glimpse. It's the kind of work in which you ask, what is my understanding of how the world works, and where can I go to see these questions get worked out in individuals' lives? That was really the question for me: whether I had anything to add to what had already been written.

I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is.

Ninety percent of the trouble in this world comes from guys who think they have something to prove.

I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.

If there is any God in this world, He lives in a theatre.

The stage is not only a world apart, it is a myriad of worlds, and in those worlds a man can have anything he fancies, if only he believes in what he sees.

I don't have to change the world all by myself, I just need to partner in the work God wants us to do.

The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a man cannot be said to be"on the side of the stars" at all, unless he makes refusals.

Most of the characters I play are heavily engulfed in some sort of fantasy world.

I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.

Death is dreadfully personal, terribly important to oneself, and so unimportant to the rest of the world.