World Quotes - page 90

I do know that there are some things that exist in this world that you just can't prove. That could be the case with God or whoever might be up there, but I don't follow any one religion. (Katie Melua)
My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. View quote
J. B. S. Haldane
Man is a paradoxical being-the constant glory and scandal of this world. View quote
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy. View quote
Lajos Kossuth
Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him. View quote
Ernest Renan
Fathers, I do not practice. I'm not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of "Good and Evil", then God enters in me. View quote
Marcel Marceau
A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there. View quote
Romain Gary
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in. (Vivienne Westwood)
The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realized that this is what the adult world is like – full of cruelty and hypocrisy. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it. View quote
Antoni Tàpies
The world is a never-ending cross-reference. View quote
Cees Nooteboom
In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it. (Carlos Castaneda)
For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himself and others. He doesn't use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
The things that people do cannot under any conditions be more important than the world. And thus a warrior treats the world as an endless mystery and what people do as an endless folly. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
The eyes of man can perform two functions: one is "seeing" energy at large as it flows in the universe and the other is "looking at things in this world." Neither of these functions is better than the other; however to train the eyes only to look is a shameful and unnecessary loss. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition. View quote
John Constable