World Quotes - Page 975

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

A little thought is sexton to all the world.

Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer always knows that he is justly punished; but when a government takes the life of a man without the consent of his conscience, it is an audacious government, and is taking a step towards its own dissolution.

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."

In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

All that any of us has to do in this world is his simple duty

It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.

I love to compete. I competed in 40-50 matches internationally all across the world. I'm young, I'm healthy, and I love to compete. If I don't compete, I'll get bored.

To play Bond, though, and then for the world to perceive you in a certain way, is very different from playing Superman. Bond is not this ideal figure.

In the new world of digital, there are no must-read publications any more.

[After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris] [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as power; yet they, and all other artists, constantly complained that the power embodied in a railway train could never be embodied in art. All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.

Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing dominant powers. And when you have a shift of the center of gravity of world affairs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, then you have an additional element.

Probably looking at a piece of paper and all the features of a minivan, the minivan is probably the best car in the world.

I think every brand in the world has gone through ups and downs.

Beneath our frantic activities, there's a deep desire to show the world we are worthwhile.

We want to prove we are good writers or good business, good parents or good teachers. The world is very competitive and catches us in this frenzy. It wants us to go here, be there, and be part of this or that.

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation.

You are a Christian only so long as you constantly pose critical questions to the society you live in, so long as you stay unsatisfied with the status quo, and keep saying that a new world is yet to come.

The great #‎ conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God.

How do you pray? Take the gospel of each day and spend ten minutes with it. Read it, and read it again. Walk into the world with the gospel in your heart.

When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.