We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.
When you look at every studio in the '20s or '30s, from Louis B. Mayer to Jack Warner, you see people who started with one plan and quickly shifted gears to adapt to a changing world. One of my favorite stories is that Walt Disney mortgaged his house...
He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the ...
Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world…concrete metaphors increase enormously our powers ...
Gary 'Eggsy' Unwin: Sorry, Love. Gotta save the world. Princess Tilde: [In a thick, Swedish accent] If you save the world, We can do it in the asshole. Gary 'Eggsy' Unwin: [Calmly] I will be right back.
[last lines] Ambassador Walker: The Third World is not a world apart... and the witness you will hear today speaks on its behalf. Let us hear the voice of that world. Let us learn from that voice... and let us ignore it no more. Ladies and gentlemen,...
I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it...
Not only do you become what you think about, but the world also becomes what you think about. Those who think that the world is a dark place are blind to the light that might illuminate their lives. Those who see the light of the world view the dark ...
Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most ...
What you see in yourself is what you see in the world.
Two things rule the world -- reward and punishment.
If you can command yourself, you can command the world.
The world exists on three things: truth, justice, and peace.
Once out of the throat it spreads over the world.
In this world generous people have no money and those with money are not generous.
The world is a rose; smell it and pass it on to your friends.
What is the world to a man when his wife is a widow.
It is more difficult to contend with oneself than with the world.
To the patient man will come all the riches of the world.
The world is a wheel and men are the felloes, and the devil prowling around spins.
Who is the happiest person in the world? An unfaithful husband.
