World Quotes - Page 966

I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to.

The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.

I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the capitalist world-economy.

Rene looked at Grendel. “What in the world is that?” “That’s our mutant attack poodle,” I told her. “Is he chewing on a gun?

The first magic wave kicked the world in the face.

In the whole world, there was no better place than being wrapped in him.

I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.

It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.

Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought.

It's the best thing in the world to be onstage, but not when you can barely stand up.

Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

We proclaim our commitment to continue to strive for the establishment of lasting world peace.

Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally.

I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.

...the world she ran through loved her and would give her what she wanted and would let it happen.

Let the debate begin, let the rest of the world know that the iconic symbol of the United Kingdom may change

England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War… I love it.

In all honesty, I have a few irons in the fire in the TV world, but mostly, I'm working on having the most amazing life I can possibly have, and hopefully my career will come along for the ride.

My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.

Music and other forms of art are by far the most effective kind of social-work that exists. A single, nameless one-hit wonder brings more comfort to the world than almost any single psychologist can hope to in a lifetime

I absolutely am an environmentalist. I am probably more of an environmentalist than most people who live in the world, but I think that comes from my position in the world and that doesn't make me a better person.

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.

The United States is not longer going to be the world's policemen and our days of determining you're in or you're out around the world no matter what the level of direct American interest or connection are going to be very limited. Increasingly, Africa will be doing that.

Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.