World Quotes - Page 992

This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family.

Because God is reflected in the world in which me made, in some sense, my scientific investigation has always supported my belief in God in a very real sense. It helps me to pray better.

If we dig deep in our history and remember that we are not descendants from fearful people, we proclaim ourselves indeed as we are the defenders of freedom wherever it continues to exist in the world.

Thank God, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.

You're really spread out now, you've got stuff all over the WORLD! You've got stuff at home, stuff in storage, stuff in Honolulu, stuff in Maui, stuff in your pockets...supply lines are getting longer and harder to maintain.

I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in.

A child born in a wealthy country is likely to consume, waste, and pollute more in his lifetime than 50 children born in developing nations. Our energy-burning lifestyles are pushing our planet to the point of no return. It is dawning on us at last that the life of our world is as vulnerable as the children we raise.

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

Syllables govern the world.

The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation.

Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.