Quotes of: World-championship Keyword

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Chinese

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

This is the real world, and only a believer walking in fellowship with His Creator and Redeemer can understand it. Everyone else is the world is experiencing a 'break with reality'.

Changed Into His Image: God's Plan for Transforming Your Life

A belief in reincarnation would at least give us some slack; we would have many lifetimes to get it right.

Crazy Wisdom Saves the World Again!: Handbook for a Spiritual Revolution

It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.

Camino Real

They are from another world, another way of life that somehow has merged with our own. These worlds are kept separate for the safety of everyone." "And yet, I connect them." "You do.

Churning Waters (The Churning Waters Saga)

There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.

Cash

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

MISSION ONE ACCOMPLISHED. The next challenge was bringing in online gamers to join him on his crusade. How was he going to convince online gamers to leave the privacy of their virtual world to work with others in the real world?--Harry Doubt

Doubt

One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not always follow this commandment.)

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way. We didn’t impose it on the Universe. That’s the way the Universe is. If this is reductionism, so be it.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You looked like the sexiest woman in the world." "Well, in fairness, I am the sexiest woman in the world." "And you're always right." "You are so brilliant to recognize that.

Drama Queen's Last Dance

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

I want to burn the world because Alan is gone," he said. "I want to destroy everything I see. But you mean something to me. I will not destroy the world, because it has you in it.

The Demon's Surrender

Why has he taken this job?... For the sake of the dogs? But the dogs are dead; and what do dogs know of honour and dishonour anyway? For himself then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more conv...

Disgrace

This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries.

The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders

Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.

Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions

The fact that both ego and self say "I" is a source of confusion and misidentification. The well-informed ego says truly, "I am what I know myself to be." The self says merely, "I am.

Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming

...the best Evil Plan offers something much more for people--a chance to buy into an idea that matters, and share it with people who matter to them.

Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck...

Einstein's Dreams