Quotes of: Civilized-world Keyword

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics," Ford said, "then something is the matter with politics.

The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity

It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world.

Pandemonium

The world carried on before we arrived. We make our entrance, adapt to our surroundings and join the chase to nowhere. We depart without fulfilment. The world carries on.

Profound Vers-A-Tales

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

The Queen of Spades

The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

We work very hard to have what Buddha gave up to become enlightened. Does that mean we are benighted?

Three Days from the World of Ro and Mo

With 87 other Elvis impersonators, I’m going to take over the world. Starting with Vegas. We will gyrate our hips out of love, and to end world hunger.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

It is a world," he said, "filled with the mysterious joinder of accident!" "It is a world," replied Abner, "filled with the mysterious justice of God!

Uncle Abner The Doomdorf Mystery

Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from

Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.

Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.

Witches Abroad

MacMillian pinched the bridge of his nose. Conspiracy theories, secret societies... what the hell had he gotten himself into? What was next? Vampires? Werewolves?

A World Apart

It's because there are too many people who want to stop us having fun. That's the reason.

The World According to Bertie

Neighbours are given to us on the same basis as we are given our families. There is no element of choice involved - none at all.

The World According to Bertie

No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to many.

The World According to Bertie

Can you walk the road your dream goes? Sometimes. Sometimes I am afraid to. Who is not. ...

The Word for World is Forest

Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.

The World We Found