World Quotes - Page 981

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.

Peter Tertzakian's analysis of world oil is a fascinating reminder that history often foretells the major turning points of the future.

In a world where globalisation wants to turn everybody into the same thing, I think that anything that allows you to go to another place or be in another world has got to be celebrated.

There is no miracle cure for the many problems of the world.

The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.

As I get more and more involved in the child's world with Rocco his son I'm getting interested in making a film for children.

The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

No one ever gets to see Foley artists at work, and they're so strange. They see the world differently: things as things that might make sounds that sound like other things. They see the whole world that way - like when you're a house painter, all you see is a bunch of houses that need painting.

My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.

Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.

... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.

The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.

It is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.

What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?

Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.

As the world becomes ever more crowded, so folding will become ever more important.

We live in a world of media that are constantly telling us it is only the shape of your body that matters to how attractive you are, and that's silly.

The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.

My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear."

I take the world to be but as a stage,Where net-maskt men do play their personage.

People comment, and that's where we are now. It's the way the world is.

Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world.

Don't let the world . . . Cheer you up.