World Quotes
-
By his own will Christ was dependent on Mary during Advent: he was absolutely helpless; he could go nowhere but where she chose to take him; he could not speak; her breathing was his breath; his heart beat in the beating of her heart.... In the seasons of our Advent - waking, working, eating, sleeping, being - each breath is a breathing of Christ into the world.
-
If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.
-
Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world
-
Manfred decides that he’s going to do something unusual for a change: He’s going to make himself temporarily rich. This is a change because Manfred’s normal profession is making other people rich. Manfred doesn’t believe in scarcity or zero-sum games or competition-his world is too fast and information-dense to accommodate primate hierarchy games.
-
At least from a national security standpoint, none of the problems the U.S. and U.K. face will become easier to solve if the U.K. is out of the E.U.; on the contrary, I fear that a 'Brexit' would only make our world even more dangerous and difficult to manage.
-
I know how inter-dependent the world is.
-
Clothes aren't going to change the world, the women who wear them will
-
I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.
-
I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.
-
The world is too fascinating to limit yourself to one path or one sort of people.
-
It seems to me both moral and practical that in the richest in nation in the world that someone working full time shouldn't live in poverty. And studies over the last 20 years in states where we have seen these minimum wage increases show there's no discernible impact on employment growth. In fact, what it does is line low-wage workers' pockets with higher wages.
-
The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back.
-
“I dreamed the world was an awful place,” he said. “It wasn’t a dream,” she told him.
-
Imagine that half the world is hidden from you. Half of the person sitting across from you has never been appreciated, half of the garden has never been seen or smelled, half of your own life has never been truly witnessed and appraised.
-
... the more the mind dominates, the more the ego comes into play, and the further people depart from their true inner self. So all the technological advances in the world mean nothing if people feel a spiritual void inside of them.
-
Countries that are occasionally immature in their ability to manage their economic affairs as well as they should - and that includes most of them - are going to find that the world is at risk.
-
We should care about what is going on in the world.
-
Until you have a child, it's very tempting to look at the state of the world and say, "To hell with it, in 50 years I won't be around anyway." But if you have a child you don't say that, because even if you're not around in 50 years, your children presumably will be, and maybe even their children. You think of yourself as responsible to future generations in a whole different way.
-
You know what's the greatest sin in the world? Hurting your fellow man.
-
The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star.
-
If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.
-
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
-
Europe and the United States are not the whole world.
-
An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.
