World Quotes - Page 979

The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.

Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!

The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

There are three stories that are foundational to the Islamic narrative in which women, and in two of the three cases, single women, are not just part of the story. They're at the very center of the story. Yet, that is not something that you would imagine to be true if you survey the Muslim world from the outside or from the inside. Part of the reason is that we don't really take our text seriously. We don't take our stories seriously. We're almost afraid of thinking complicated thoughts.

Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float.

Satan is neither omnipotent nor free to do everything he pleases. Prince of the world he may be, but the Prince of Peace has come and dealt him a death blow.

Regardless of the day or the hour; whether in seeming good times or bad, the Christian lives in the world for the good of the world and for the sake of the world.

Whether you are out in the world, or you're at home, you are simply an instrument of God's love in your universe.

In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest.

The 'gatekeepers' became a term of revile. But when you think about the flow of information, I personally value immensely the calibration a news organ, whether it's on the web or in print, brings to the floodwaters of information. I haven't the time to read all the dispatches of the Associated Press, for example. It's fantastic what they put out, it's extremely good, from all over the world. I like when someone acts as a filter.

An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like urinal cake.

The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10 million residents, are booming.

There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.

Who controls the images? Ultimately, we don't control the images. This is the minimum we're allowed to ask for: we don't get to control most of the media. We fight to have some say in the ways we're represented. At the bare minimum, don't insult us in person. That's all we ask! Let us at least be able to function freely in the world.

By honoring your words you are honored in this world.

This is a tragic world we live in.

The world has gotten so interwoven.

In life, new thoughts and ideas always clash with the old world order and habits.

You have the right to not have to constantly manage how you look for other people's sake. You aren't here to decorate the world for other people. You're here to live in it for yourself, no matter what that looks like.

There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.

Names govern the world.

Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it as a new thing into an old world.

They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape.

No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.