World Quotes
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Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.
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No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...
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When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
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Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden words, prayer, worship, prophecy, group privileges, or anointed 'holy' leaders. Atheists don't believe in a transcendent world or supernatural afterlife. Most important, there is no orthodoxy in atheism.
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My point, though, is that if lines have indeed shifted, it's not so much that the younger generation just doesn't care, it's that we have ceded more and more of our public life over to the private sector. If you grow up with advertising at school, you have come of age in a sold-out world.
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It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.
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Oh, how much holier the world would be if more people invoked their right to remain silent.
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These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.
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Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have already imposed.
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If we think that the world is here for us we will continue to destroy it the way we have been destroying it, because we think we can do no harm.
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Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad.
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The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to the intelligibility of the world. The match between our intelligence and the intelligibility of the world is no accident. Nor can it properly be attributed to natural selection, which places a premium on survival and reproduction and has no stake in truth or conscious thought. Indeed, meat-puppet robots are just fine as the output of a Darwinian evolutionary process.
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The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West.
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Literature and art are one of a number of relationships I have with the world. Like you have relationships with your friends and a relationship with your lover and your relationship with your family and your relationship with your work - sometimes it's really great; sometimes it's non-existent, sometimes it's fruitful.
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Keep on rockin' in the free world.
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It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.
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People don't like the music that's out now, that's on their radio stations, and they want to hear something different, but they're just the audience. You know, people will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that. [But] they are really looking for something that's gonna speak to the world that they're living in. That's what people are looking for, but they're not finding it.
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Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.
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The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.
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Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.
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The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.
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I think raise doubts that's what Russians are doing around the world. I think they're trying to do that. I think they're trying to cause everything to be in question. We see them playing in a lot of different elections and trying to do that, because that's all they've got.
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Part of any book is establishing the rules at the end of the world. My first book, 'The Intuitionist,' takes place in an alternative world where elevator inspectors are important, so you have to establish rules, and part of that is, How do people talk? How do they behave?
Colson Whitehead -
Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you.
