Quotes of: World-bank Keyword

Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.

Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland

Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality.

Fear: A Novel of World War I

The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats

Finding Home: A Creative Journey on a Trip Around the World

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

An angry man will find himself in an angry world, and a swindler will find himself in a world of thieves whom he dare not trust. Like attracts and mirrors like.

Game of Aeons

The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.

The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century

Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, "It was involuntary. They think my boat.

Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

The Guide for the Perplexed

Knowing nature is part of knowing God. Faith directs us to the invisible God, but leads us back from God to the entire visible world.

God's Son and God's World

Nothing in the world can make you happy; everything in the world can encourage you to be happy

Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good FAST

Karma's a bitch with a broken heart. But she wears a smile on her face because she's the queen of revenge.

Hidden World: Past, Present and Future

Be in the World, Not of the World—Kind of like Lucky Charms cereal: there are lots of pretty marshmallows in with the cereal, but they’re not the same. So live with the cereal, but remember: you’re a pretty marshmallow.

Becca by the Book

Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next...

Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

But cycling is less a hobby than it is a discipline with the potential to transform you. It brings balance.

Bike Snob: Systematically & Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling

A grace is a thing you get from God, you use it to make a better world, or not use it, you have to choose.

Brother Odd

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don’t know, but it’s a world where there’s no time, so space, no frontiers.

Brida

Consider the holiness of your hands. They are how you do your work on this earth; they are a microcosm of the hands of the Goddess, and can change the world as easily as hers can.

The Body Sacred

When giving money to the amputated, you must put it directly into their pockets.

Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones

...that in former ages they had been as wise as they are in this present, nay, wiser; for, said they, many in this age do think their forefathers have been fools, by which they prove themselves to be such.

The Blazing World and Other Writings