Quotes of: Private-world Keyword

Among the many worlds which man did not receive as a gift of nature, but which he created with his own mind, the world of books is the greatest. Every child, scrawling his first letters on his slate and attempting to read for the first time, in so do...

My Belief

You cannot mend the chromosome, quell the earthquake, or stanch the flood. You cannot atone for the dead tyrants’ murders and you alone cannot stop living tyrants. As Martin Buber saw it, the world of ordinary days “affords” us that precise ass...

For the Time Being

Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality of the men who, surrounded by a skeptical world, have shown the way to kindred spirits scattered...

The World As I See It

I had this dream, see, where I saw the whole world melt. I was standing on La Cienega and from there I could see the whole world and it was melting and it was just so strong and realistic like. And so I thought, Well, if this dream comes true, how ca...

Bret Easton Ellis

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things—like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale. One night in Hiroshima it occurred to me that the moon behind a certain ...

David Mitchell

Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you.

African

No matter how much the world changes, cats will never lay eggs.

Bambara

If you want to go up in the world, veil ambition with the forms of humanity.

Chinese

He who wants a new world must first buy the old.

Dutch

A beggar will always be a beggar even if they give him the whole world as a gift.

Iranian

For him who does not believe in signs, thre is no way to live in the world.

Russian

It’s Curt Schilling and his bloody sock staring down the Yankees in the Bronx. It’s Derek Lowe taking the mound the very next night to complete the most improbable comeback in baseball history—and then seven days later clinching the World Serie...

Boston Red Sox: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports

The cat arrived with a bottle of Scotch.

The Cat Who Covered the World: The Adventures Of Henrietta And Her Foreign Correspondent

Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.

Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility

To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

It is the end of the world. Surely you could be allowed a few carnal thoughts.

Doomsday Book

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

The Divine Comedy

If you wish to view this as a cautionary tale, be my guest.

Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End...

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

That is life's talent. To accept new things.

Eden: It's an Endless World, Volume 1

If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.

Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World Volume 1