Best 26728 quotes in «world quotes» category

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy.

Awakening is about liberating yourself from the prison that is the world of the mind and daring to be here as all that you are.

Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.

Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.

Awareness is very, very important because we're living in a world which is literally shrinking by the day. We are global citizens. So, for us not to be aware of what's happening to our neighbor is almost sad. Once you're aware, then you can decide what cause you want to dedicate your time to.

A visionary is someone who sees the future with both insight and foresight: Insight into the deeper causes and meaning of events in the world, and foresight, or an intuitive grasp of the big picture, such as the trajectory of politics and popular culture.

Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the thought of mankind as a whole.

A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

A whole world is taken to the grave with the dead person; each one of us is unique and unrepeatable.

Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

Awe is the best drug in the world

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

A war film can be propaganda and they're very valuable as propaganda, as we realized in Britain in the Second World War. Film as propaganda is a very valuable tool. It can also demonize, which is the dangerous side of a war film as propaganda. But there are war films that are not propaganda. It's just saying 'This is what it's like.' For 99 percent of us we don't know what it's like. We have no idea. So to reveal that to the audience is powerful.

Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.

A woman bought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one.

A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.

A woman’s duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes… to speak and act in defiance of convention.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

A woman's hat is close to her heart, though she wears it on her head. It is her way of saying to the world: See this is what I am like-or this is what I would like to be.

A work can do many things at once, and it doesn't have to be just about the world, it could also be about photography, it could be about perception, it could be an exploration of the medium. It could be a document, it could be a visual poetry, and it could be a formal exploration all at the same time.

A word is all it takes to put a man in prison, or to seize his property, or to end his life. A saber might be stopped by a shield. A bullet might be dodged by a stroke of luck. But you can't dodge a word. If one is flung at you, it will hit its mark unerringly. No Garritt, there's nothing in the world more dangerous than talk.

A world ends when its metaphor has died.

A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.

A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

A world of colors on the palette remaining... wandering... on canvases still emerging.

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to distress. Hunger is not among the postponable wants; and a day, even a few hours, in such a condition is often the crisis of a life of ruin.

A worldview is simply someone's relatively organized understanding of what the world is actually like.

A world without love is a deadly place.

A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

A world without open country would be universal jail.

A young man ain't nothin' in the world these days

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

A World Cup without Zlatan is not worth watching.

A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.

A world is in flames, and you are cracking silly jokes.

A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.

A world of abundance surrounds you, if only you will step up and claim it. Make life happen through you rather than letting it happen to you. It will make all the difference in the world.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

A World Parliamentary Assembly functioning outside the United Nations, or a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly set up as a subsidiary body of the General Assembly pursuant to article 22 of the UN Charter, could start initially as a consultative body and gradually develop into a legislative assembly.

A world state which which embraces the entire globe and all of humanity cannot exist. The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.

A world where Congressmen spend 30 to 70 percent of their time raising money from a tiny, tiny fraction of the 1% is a world where that tiny, tiny fraction has enormous power. And it's that inequality in political power that enables this corrupted system to happen.

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

A world without men would consists of a bunch of fat, happy women with no crime.

A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.