Quotes on World

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.

Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences, knowledge of all things of the earth. It embodies the hopes and dreams of those who have gone before, including the spirit world; it is so fragile it can be destroyed by a sound or thought. It may be infinitesimally small or encompass the universe itself. It comes in a swift conception wherever nature has not been disturbed.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today.

Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.

Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.

The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.

When we pray, we bring G-d into the world

I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily be the ones who best understand you. As if there weren't far too much understanding in the world already; above all, that understanding between lovers, celebrated in song and story, which is actually such torture that no two of them can bear it without frequent separations or fights.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

I've always been inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, who articulated his Dream of an America where people are judged not by skin color but "by the content of their character." In the scientific world, people are judged by the content of their ideas. Advances are made with new insights, but the final arbitrator of any point of view are experiments that seek the unbiased truth, not information cherry picked to support a particular point of view.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

I love what I do. I was given the most incredible gift that can be given to anyone. I could never imagine a world without music, and I feel grateful that I've been given the ability to share that.

Television, above all, is the place where people can see the world they live in, and if the world they live in is a world without the arts, so much the worse for television, and so much the worse for the viewers.

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.