Quotes of: World-championship Keyword

A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes such simple, truthful natures as that of my heroine, and it is in the sphere of quiet homes—not elsewhere—I believe that a woman can be...

San Miguel

Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what is before us that we discount our intuition. Yet if one dismisses instinct, how can one understand or believe in a world that exists b...

The Spiritualist

The world is swirling with so many mysteries and secrets that nobody will ever track down all of them. But with a book you can stay up very late, reading until all the secrets are clear to you. The questions of the world are hidden forever, but the a...

Shouldn't You Be in School?

A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to w...

Shakespeare: The World as Stage

Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch ...

Stello

There is an old Arab Bedouin saying: . That is jungle law. It is the way of the world when the world is thrown into chaos. It is our job to avert that chaos, to fight against it, to resist the urge to become savage. Because the problem with such law ...

The Sweetness of Tears

There is no better point of entry to the religious experience than the Sabbath, for all its apparent ordinariness. Because of its ordinariness. The extraordinariness of the Sabbath lies in its being commonplace.

The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time

The World has a First Cause, which may be regarded as the Mother of the World. When one has found the Mother, one can know the Child. Knowing the Child and still keeping the Mother, to the end of his days he shall suffer no harm.

The Sayings Of Lao Tzu

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail.

The Second World War

World peace, true love, and happily-ever-afters amount to wasted wishes, failed endeavors, and most precious dreams.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

I don't want to work a 9-5 job, because 20 hours a day is just too much.

There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

The other day I went to the Huddle House. I wasn’t hungry, I just wanted to call some plays.

There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

I have a real problem keeping friends. I'm always running out of space in my freezer.

There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

Moral codes are like the ocean. Some people live by them, while others, such as myself, would rather live by a lake.

There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

I have discovered that the easiest way to make my nose appear smaller is to wear a Speedo on my head.

There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

The only time I really think is when I smoke, and I quit smoking years ago.

There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

He looks like a runway model. How in the world am I going to be able to reject that? The world is so unfair. Seriously, it's like turning Brad Pitt down for a date. The girl who could actually do it should win an award for idiot of the century.

Tiger's Curse

Risk management seemed to have completed its transformation into pure entertainment. Dudley seemed the epitome of a risk manager who would drown crossing a river that was 12 inches in depth .

Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives

I’m world famous. Throughout the globe—north, south, east, and west—there are literally four people who know my name. It’s great to have all four grandparents still living, and widely dispersed around the world.

This Book Title is Invisible

Well more than two thirds of the press releases from Douglas MacArthur's command reference only one person – himself.

Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941