Quotes of: Arab-world Keyword

Contemplating a flame perpetuates a primordial reverie. It separates us from the world and enlarges our world as dreamers. In itself the flame is a major presence, but being close to it makes us dream of far away, too far away. The flame is there, fe...

Gaston Bachelard

As a woman, I see myself as a garden, and I see myself as the gardener of myself, I see myself forming and pruning and watering and nourishing all the flowers and trees and vines and leaves in me. There is a world within yourself, that has so much to...

C. JoyBell C.

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others… In this world so fi...

Gordon B. Hinckley

Jesus: You're here to trick me. The Cobra/Satan: Trick you? To love and care for a woman, to have a family? This is a trick? Why are you trying to save the world? Aren't your own sins enough for you? What arrogance to think you can save the world. Th...

The Last Temptation of Christ

Leonard Shelby: I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. Do I believe the world's s...

Memento

Wendy: Why won't you let him run? Warren: Hey he's too old and his bike's too old. Ali: Well I hear he's come halfway around the world to ride that cycle. Wendy: Yeah, c'mon. Warren: Wendy, if he was to kill himself. Wendy: So! It's his life.

The World's Fastest Indian

I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world through it. I admire artists who succeed in dividing my attention more or less evenly between ...

Annie Dillard

When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought...

Tullian Tchividjian

Our parents taught us to speak and the world taught us to be silent.

Czech

He who is always right will never get round the world.

Japanese

It is precisely the uncertainty of this world that makes life worth living.

Japanese

Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.

Maltese

The world is like that: one gives a melon, the other gets the stomach cramps.

Turkish

You can't measure the whole world with your own yardstick.

Yiddish

There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don’t have all the time in the world, we have all the world, and not enough time.

Deep In The Bin Of Bob

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Science gropes and staggers toward improved understanding.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

And there is nothing more dangerous in this world, in any world, than someone calm, clear and angry.

The Dig

All beauty, according to Lady Katchatka, had its origins in pain.

End of the World Blues

Suddenly he knew all the things he should have said.

Flotsam: A Novel of World War II

We change the world a little each day with our kindness.

Be A Good Human