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If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world...?
The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star.
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go.
The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.
By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.
The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
My motto in life is 'If you think it, you can do it' and if we all apply that thought we can end hunger the world over.
Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.
Even a China growing at 7% or indeed less is still adding to the world economy an economy equivalent to the UK or more.
After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable.
Better that the whole world should turn against you... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.
Christ's work is a kind of deterrent to us, and a way of upholding the justice of God's divine government of the world.
Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with-rather than in competition with-the world.
When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.
It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.
Whatever you see, hear or experience in the world is ephemeral. Get in touch with the eternal substratum of everything.
... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.
It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.
The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.
I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.
When something goes into the world, you immediately begin to develop another perspective on yourself, another identity.
Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.
Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo is arguably the world's most famous polymath. So many thoughts and so many different ideas!
American leadership looks to the world and just as Lincoln did sees the family of man. Humanity is not a zero-sum game.
Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.
Resurrection does not simply spell the survival of the soul but requires the transformation of the world as we know it.
The world today is the same as it always was but people know more about what's going on in the world than they used to.
Without a single shot we've managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity.
This world is bad enough maybe; We do not comprehend it; But in one fact can all agree God won't, and we can't mend it.
I don't know how you would live in the world of Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston and being stalked. It's just brutal.
We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.
Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.
The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.
Your money, your singleness, marriage, talent and time, they were loaned to you to show the world that Christ is Divine
The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back.
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
Vladimir Putin wants to become the de facto head of an illiberal, xenophobic, hypernationalist trend in world politics.
I would say that, apart from being a writer, I have also always been very conscious of the idea of a 'world elsewhere'.
I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called Ooh La La, that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.
In a world as empirical as ours, a youngster who does not know what he is good at will not be sure what he is good for.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
The only acceptable imperialism is the Imperialism of the Forest! Let the whole world are invaded by the tree-soldiers!
The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.
I don't know whether what I do is art. But making things out in the world and having as many conversations as possible.
Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world didn’t.
Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the worlds.
The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.
Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.