World Quotes
The truth must be told, even if the world should be shivered in fragments.
It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm.
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it's government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.
The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.
Complaining is not a strategy. You have to work with the world as you find it, not as you would have it be.
Still, with all of our faults and problems, the rest of the world would love even the tiniest sip of the elixir we have here in the US ... It's still Day One for this country.
The outside world can push you into Day 2 if you won't or can't embrace powerful trends quickly. If you fight them, you're probably fighting the future. Embrace them and you have a tailwind.
The world is littered with corpses that predicted technology in a particular arena was done. If there's another gigantic step change out there, we don't yet know what it is.
Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
The North American idea that diversity is strength, is our great gift to the world. No matter where you are from, or the faith you profess, nor the colour of your skin, nor whom you love, you belong here. This is home.
I've said many times that there isn't a country in the world that would find billions of barrels of oil and leave it in the ground while there is a market for it.
The true logic of this world is in the calculus of probabilities.
The world may be utterly crazy, and life may be labour in vain; But I'd rather be silly than lazy, and would not quit life for its pain.
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
The greatest thing to come out of this [the war in Iraq] for the world economy, if you could put it that way, would be $20 a barrel for oil. That's bigger than any tax cut in any country.
The 'big bang,' that today is considered to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the creative intervention of God, on the contrary it requires it.
Mercy is the true power that can save humanity and the world from sin and evil.
These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.
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