Quotes of: Arab-world Keyword

A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

My Name is Red

I am not a genuine woman, but I am not interested in genuineness.

My Face for the World to See: The Diaries, Letters, and Drawings of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar

Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful!

The Moment It Clicks: Photography Secrets from One of the World's Top Shooters

Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you

Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training and Real World Violence

Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people - people like you and me who did things to change the world.

Nightmare

The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone through what it requires to become president.

The Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well.

The Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

Nonviolence is only for the brave men and women of the world because it requires courage – courage to love the beauty of life, beauty of humanity and the beauty of the world.

Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

Once I had opened a book and read its pages, those characters could never be taken away from me. Even if the books were burned, they would still live on in my mind.

New World: Rising

Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.

The One Idea That Saves The World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

Little Bee

Love and compassion are the mother and father of a smile. We need to create more smiles in our world today. Smiles, after all, pave the way to a happy world.

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.

Listening for Lions

The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level.

The Logical Structure of the World and Pseudoproblems in Philosophy

Harry had worked his way through the American Dream and come to the conclusion that is was composed of a good lunch and a deep red wine that could soar.

Let the Great World Spin

...it is entirely illogical to consider biology in dichotomous terms of genes and environment—all of biology is based on the continuous interaction of both.

Mismatch: Why Our World No Longer Fits Our Bodies

They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.

The Martian Chronicles

Jews are estimated to be less than 1% of the world's population yet approximately 25% of the world's billionaires are Jewish.

The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code

some smart alecs of those days after World War I used to say: "The French fought for liberty, the British fought to control the seas, but the Americans fought for souvenirs.

Mr. Citizen

The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant slave, an untiring steel Negro, controlled by Reason in a world of infinite resources.

The Shock of the New