World Quotes - Page 978

Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.

It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again.

Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things.

Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love.

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.

Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.

My point is: in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.

The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right?

The unwaking world was as hushed as a deep forest.

We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.

I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

The world is full of ways and means to waste time.

Why are we ignoring the rest of the world? We need to have a fair and global response to migration.

The Victorian world is extremely dark and extremely bright.

Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are; it's about the situation they're in.

The United States, which would live on Christian principles with all of the peoples of the world, cannot omit a fair deal for its own Indian citizens.

There is no entity in the world that controls our lives more than the Federal Reserve System

Now [in China] within the framework of socialism - which is really social welfare in a social democratic framework - all they want to do is to get the kind of economic growth of the capitalist world. It can't be done. It creates the same kind of problems as in the capitalist world.

It is the professed goal [of U.S. multinational corporations] to control as large a share of the world market as they do of the United States market.

Julie Taymor. She is my gold standard of stage directors. I think she has a comprehensive knowledge of theatrical form, since she lived in Indonesia, Java, Japan and France. Her knowledge of form is limitless. Whenever I get painted in a corner, I think about what form she would use, because that is what she practices. It's about accessing the theater traditions of the whole world.

Girls liking bad boys is the cookie jar complex. When somebody tells you you can't have a cookie, you want a cookie. But I live in a bad-boy world, artistically. All the jazz boys are bad boys.

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

America rules the world - by force.

There's nothing shameful in acknowledging that you don't have the answers to every question about life. Just accept the fact that you know only a fraction of what's going on in the world. You don't have to attach explanations in terms of a special revelation of God's will, a glimpse at the supernatural, evidence of a conspiracy, or anything else.

The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.