World Quotes - Page 939

The idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical. Every time we exhale, we exhale carbon dioxide. Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you've got more carbon dioxide.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist except he was a Realist.

Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.

When we export energy, we export American influence overseas. As I travel around the world, I know that there are people that want to buy energy from America.

A nuclear armed Iran makes the world less safe, less stable, less secure.

The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.

These days I must take the world in small and carefully measured doses. It is a sort of homeopathic cure I am undergoing, though I am not certain what this cure is meant to mend. Perhaps I am learning to live amongst the living again. Practising, I mean. But no, that is not it. Being here is just a way of not being anywhere.

And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.

Americans want to be exposed to the opportunities that a changing world can offer.

Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.

The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.

What happens is when you start to believe it in here your brain starts to believe it out here in our physical world so you have to understand it is a reverse of what we have been taught. "When I see it I will believe it".

There is nothing that separates us except our belief that we are separate and so everything I do that is good in the world you benefit from you benefit from and everything I do that is not good in the world you lose from, and visa versa.

A calculated, malignant, devastating evil has arisen in our world, ... Civilization cannot ignore the wrongs that have been done. America will not tolerate their being repeated. Justice has a new mission, a new calling against an old evil.

There are two kinds of systems in the world. There are many-party systems and there are two-party systems. And our English cousins, both England, Canada, Australia, India, tend to have majority rule elections, rather than proportional elections and that tends to lead them to have two sort of competing parties. So in England, you know, it's been, you know, since the '20's, that anybody other than Labor or the Conservatives have formed a government and gotten a Prime Minister in the Cabinet, and so on.

If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be over-thrown with it, what advantage will be gained?

The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.

I do not know what happened with your parents or why they did what they did. But in all the world, I could have wished for no daughter but you.

A world without love would be no world.

As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.

One lives but once in the world.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?

The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.