World Quotes - Page 928

Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world.

He saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied.

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.

I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.

The collapse of the world's banking system and the impending disaster of accelerating climate change are not separate phenomena. They are simply the most visible symptoms of a particular model of capitalism that will bring civilisation to its knees. But those symptoms will not get sorted unless and until we commit to a radical transformation of the way we create and distribute wealth in the world today

I would certainly never want to inflict anything on the world exactly as [Buckminster Fuller] envisioned it because there is a technocratic worldview that I find horrific.

What I've been thinking about recently is the idea of finite and fragility. Either we're acknowledging that our lives here are finite, this moment is finite, and that this whole world is fragile, or we're not, but it is really happening and that is really true.

We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms.

If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit.

Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really cheap stuff.

People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.

But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.

But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.

The world is a big place," he said, "but so is the inside of an apartment!

I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?

....Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.

In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.