Quotes on World

People who believe themselves to be the incarnation of good have a distorted view of the world.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to poverty, the solution always includes education, ... We need to depend more on peer-to-peer and self-driven learning. The laptop is one important means of doing that.

Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.

We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever.

Again I want to emphasize that the study of propaganda must be conducted within the context of a technological society. Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments, and to integrate the individual into a technological world.

If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems.

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.

I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on trifling pretexts or none at all, and carried on without any reference of law, Divine or human.

An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.

Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges. but I was in a little better physical shape every day, I was getting my looks back, and my spirits were rising, and this was all in all a happy time for me. All these weirdos, and me getting a little better right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.

The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed....which hasn't gotten us anywhere - now's the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants.

Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas.

I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.

If riches increase, set not your hearts upon them: so if friends increase, set not your hearts upon them, but trust in the living God, let it be the living God that you rest on even for all outward things in this world.

And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here.

Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.

Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.