World Quotes - page 95

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity. (Fernando Pessoa)
There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business" - Rhett Butler. View quote
Margaret Mitchell
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
How can you own [...] numbers? Numbers belong to the world. View quote
Donald Knuth
We are the richest country in the world. We spend more on health care than any other country. Yet we have the worst health care in the Western world. Come on. We can do better than this. View quote
Michael Moore
The same way people are now paying a couple thousand dollars to fly to other parts of the world, people will be paying $50,000 to spend a weekend on a space station. View quote
Alan Shepard
This old aristocracy and Church-ridden, and tradition-ridden country will never grow wiser. Whilst we are fighting for supremacy in Europe, the [United] States are working, and not fighting for it, but winning it all over the world. (John Bright)
It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious. View quote
Stephen Hawking
The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away. View quote
Stephen Hawking
In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years? View quote
Stephen Hawking
When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world. View quote
Susie Bright
A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent. View quote
Norbert Wiener
The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment. View quote
Norbert Wiener
Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. View quote
W. H. Auden
I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it. View quote
Kristen Bell
Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world! View quote
Alexander Hamilton
I want to conquer the world and it seems like my own family is putting a stop to that. (Kim Wilde)
The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things. View quote
John Ruskin
We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions, self-possession; and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace. View quote
John Ruskin
What is correct action in a deteriorating world? View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The world is me and I am the world. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti