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Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.
There's not a woman in the world who hasn't felt self-conscious about something! We as women all experience it but we never talk about it.
Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.
Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.
Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world.
One thing and only one thing a Masonic Lodge can give its members which they can get nowhere else in the world. That one thing is Masonry.
Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.
We're living in a world where the response is really instantaneous, even though it's delayed by a few months. It comes at you pretty fast.
In the modern world, the interests of a particular community can no longer be considered to lie within the confines of its own boundaries.
The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it
Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget.
The place that I found where European musicians and American musicians come together is that odd middle world which is called uncertainty.
All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!
I don't think I'm kind of universally known. I think in the indie world I'm probably better known than in some mainstream Hollywood terms.
I came into public life during the 1960s when a whole bunch of us believed in our ability to change the world. And we did a lot of things.
I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to come with me where I want her to go.
I think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.
The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you know.
If I was given the choice between having the world back and having you, I wouldn't be able to give you up. Not to save five billion lives.
The best actors in the world are the actors who don't keep the walls up all the time and allow themselves the potential to be embarrassed.
our limbs which had already traveled far beyond her world, carrying the click of distances in the smooth, untroubled soles of their shoes.
If you learn something that changes you, you've made progress. If you learn something that changes others, you've helped change the world.
We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman, happens to the human. What happens to the outer world, happens to the inner world.
I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.
Whenever I'm looking for actors, I'm always looking for actors who are intelligent and who feel fresh and who feel authentic to the world.
There is nothing wrong with the world of physicality. There is nothing wrong with existence. It's perfect ... but it's terribly transient.
The world we all share is the same in important respects. But in some deep ways, the lived world and its meanings are radically different.
You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death for all you care!
In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.
Follow your heart and don't question it, no matter where it tells you to go It will open up a world of experiences you can't even imagine.
An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous
God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
If we can't meet with our friends, I don't know how we're going to lead the world in terms of dealing with critical issues like terrorism.
We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.
Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?
Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing success.
The Americans are trying to expand their influence in the world, particularly in Europe. They are defending their own interests, not ours.
I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.
When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world.
I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.
None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)
REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.
Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.
In that Freak Show environment, I got to spend time with so many of the actors who were part of that world. I just had the best time ever.
It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.
To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.
I believe good plans are the best way to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and possibly, save the world. I spend a lot of my time making them.
Drug addicts are so funny that way. Just spinning around, lost in their own little world. Doing so much, accomplishing so little. How sad.
The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.