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The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.
It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.
There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.
India may be overtaking China as the world's most polluted country. Even now, which country is worse depends on the day.
Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.
A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.
What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.
Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.
Be to the world a sign that while we as Christians do not have all the answers, we do know and care about the questions.
In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.
I think his karma became to serve in nature and not to serve in the world, while I think my karma is to be in the world.
Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.
The task of industry is continuously, year on year, to make more and better things, using less of the world's resources.
All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. Its a negotiation tool.
In order for us and our families to withstand the pressures of the world, we must be filled with light and gospel truth.
The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions.
Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.
But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.
Perhaps love doesn't make the world go round, but it makes the bumpy ride worthwhile and provides a glorious destination.
I think we're in a disposable world and 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the things that hasn't quite been thrown away yet.
Don't discount yourself, no matter what you're doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world.
Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.
I get plenty of time to re-engage with the world I'm trying to depict, so I'm not always living in these parallel worlds.
Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world?
You know as far as diet goes, for a while I was really obsessed with counting fat grams along with the rest of the world.
I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart.
The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation.
I would dearly love to take up the brush again, but I realize that I am an old man and that I cannot set the world afire.
This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding; my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.
I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from being mine.
If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
No woman has ever stepped on Little America - and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.
No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.
The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.
The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.
How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!
Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.
We can lead this world and make it safer and more secure for our children and our grandchildren, for generations to come.
The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.
The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.
The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.
I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then world peace.
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the sun set. You are watching the world turn.
To militant Islamists, the expulsion of the Soviets was just the prelude to purging the entire Islamic world of infidels.
You never want to be forced to do something. But the world around you starts to influence you in ways you never expected.