Quotes 3561 till 3580 of 4570.
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The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence." ~ Paul Auster
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The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.
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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.
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The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.
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The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.
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The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: ''There is life, but it's not for you.''
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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
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The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
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The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
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The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
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The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
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The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.
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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
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