World Quotes - page 83

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle. (Ayn Rand)
In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both. View quote
Ayn Rand
She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected. View quote
Ayn Rand
Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love. View quote
Ayn Rand
He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done. View quote
Ayn Rand
It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance - these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
But when you come right down to it the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are a scientist you cannot stop such a thing. If you are a scientist you believe that it is good to find out how the world works; that it is good to find out what the realities are; that it is good to turn over to mankind at large the greatest possible power to control the world and to deal with it according to its lights and its values. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Our scientists all the more occupy advanced positions in the development of world science. By the example of their successes in the field of atomic energy, our scientists and technicians have vividly shown how much the increased might of the Soviet state and the further growth of its international authority depends on their efforts and practical successes. (Vyacheslav Molotov)
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. View quote
Susan Sarandon
To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems. View quote
Susan Sarandon
Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen - physical or psychological - wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like. View quote
Sylvia Plath
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream. View quote
Sylvia Plath
I've had every known chemical--cocaine, booze--and tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke! View quote
Ozzy Osbourne
If the world does not change course, we risk self-destruction. View quote
Mohamed ElBaradei
A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only. View quote
Richard Wilbur
Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie. View quote
Banksy
The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires. View quote
Banksy
Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place. (Banksy)
There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place. View quote
Banksy
We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves. View quote
Banksy
When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar, and is little recognized. While the Spaniard roamed sea and land, burning for achievement, red-hot with bigotry and avarice, and while England, with soberer steps and a less dazzling result, followed in the path of discovery and gold-hunting, it was from France that those barbarous shores first learned to serve the ends of peaceful commercial industry. View quote
Francis Parkman
In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow. View quote
Francis Parkman