World Quotes - Page 934

Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.

The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.

The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.

In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.

It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.

The world is awash in more debt than there is money enough in the world to liquidate it.

At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to bring the assets-to-debt ratio back in touch with reality.

I'm happy to announce to the world that I'm a crier. It doesn't take a lot for me to cry at stuff.

Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, including New Zealanders, in several different parts of the world.

While his removal will not necessarily bring an immediate end to terrorist activity, I have absolutely no doubt that the world is a safer place without Osama Bin Laden.

In a world where for pedagogic and other purposes a very large number of economists is required, an arrangement which discourages many of them from

In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

The attraction of power we take for granted in politics.. But in economics...the thrust...is for pecuniary return, for money. And I have always felt that denies in the economic world a very large part of the motivation.

I was in charge of price controls in World War II and had a ceiling on overall prices. Everybody who was subject to general maximum price regulation wanted an exception and went to Congress to persuade a Congressman, or a group of people on the Hill, that I was being a menace to their industry.

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.

You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.

With the American failure came world failure.

No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.

Call the world if you please "the vale of soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world.

The world is too brutal for me-I am glad there is such a thing as the grave-I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.

A more detailed world is a more complicated and complex one, and therefore a more empathetic one. I feel Gord's Downie lyrics are exceptionally empathetic, or that's what they accomplish. The fact that they can cross all those cultural cliques and boundaries really amplifies that, to me.

Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.

You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.