World Quotes
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I certainly don’t believe in religion, although I find it fascinating that it’s become so powerful in the world and it’s kind of dictated morals down through societies for thousands of years, but I don’t see the hand of God at work in the world anywhere.
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When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
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I never thought I'd say this, but to any child listening, the world is your oyster.
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Harry, to Thelma, about Janet 'She never really figured out how the world is put together but she's still working at it.'
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The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing. And things you know before you hear them — those are you, those are why you are in the world.
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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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The time has come when the whole world must be concerned about me. From now on, American Christianity must follow me.
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No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.
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Prayer enables us to transform the world because it transforms us.
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While the developed world has shifted from agriculture to manufacturing and then to services, the number of jobs has always climbed.
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A world view is probably an expression of self.
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There's nothing more exciting than that conversation you have with a live audience. It's the best feeling in the world.
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He felt that both parts of his life were continually ‘spying on each other’, and developed the ability to step into and out of either world.
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So many people are struggling to create happiness while their brain is inundated by noise. If your brain is receiving too much information, it automatically thinks you're under threat and scans the world for the negative first. Because the brain is limited, whatever you attend to first becomes your reality.
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Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.
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Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.
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Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.
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Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your practices? Surely not. It is recorded of him that a bruised reed he never broke. Cease, then, to call yourselves Christians, lest you declare to the world your hypocrisy. Cease, too, to call other nations savage, when you are tenfold more the children of cruelty than they.
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One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
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Puzzles are made of the things that the mathematician, no less than the child, plays with, and dreams and wonders about, for they are made of things and circumstances of the world he or she live in.
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Despite all the doom and gloom that constantly assaults our senses, there is a way for us to ransom our lives and reclaim our futures: it consists in turning away from the world to recognize what in life makes us truly happy. For each of us, what that is will be different. But once we obtain this inner knowledge, we will possess the ability to transform our outer world. "You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself," the pilot and writer Beryl Markham reminds us. We cannot let this continue to occur.
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We have 22 players who were involved in the Rugby World Cup last year and five new guys who will add talent and enthusiasm to the squad.
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And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world.
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I can be plenty frustrated and not have to constantly portray myself as upset and angry at the world.
