Top 1200 My Own World Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I do feel that softness for the vulnerability and the innocence in our world, including my own.

This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.

Peace for the whole world begins with a smile in your own heart.

It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.

The Western world, and the UK in particular, is drowning in a sea of its own blubber.

We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

A Congress afraid of its own citizens is unworthy to lead the free world.

The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the world are neither in its interests nor within the scope of its resources. This whole tendency to see ourselves as the center of political enlightenment and as teachers to a great part of the rest of the world strikes me as unthought-through, vainglorious and undesirable.

Britain, as a pop music nation, used to have this very 'empire' kind of attitude. We used to 'invade' the world with our bands, you know? That's obviously changed, because in Europe they're much more interested in bands speaking their own language. Especially in France and Germany. They're starting to develop their own bands much more.

No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.

Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost.

The Goddess falls in love with Herself, drawing forth her own emanation, which takes on a life of its own. Love of self for self is the creative force of the universe. Desire is the primal energy, and that energy is erotic: the attraction of lover to beloved, of planet to star, the lust of electron for proton. Love is the glue that holds the world together.

So many people don't have control over their destiny in a way that I do, don't own their own businesses, don't have their own clients. I owe it to them to speak freely.

What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days.

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls.

I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?

Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.

I believe in my own ability and I think the belief is there to win anything in the world.

In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that the inner world of our minds, its dreams, hopes, ambitions, represented the realm of fantasy, and the imagination. These roles, it seems to me, have been reversed. The most prudent and effective method of dealing with the world around us is to assume that it is a complete fiction - conversely, the one small node of reality left to us is inside of our own heads.

Sometimes I go into my own little world. It's okay, they know me there.

We must create our own world or we will die from inaction

I'd rather have the whole world against me than my own soul.

You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.

We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.

What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months.

All things in the world of Nature are not controlled by Fate for the soul has a principle of its own.

Americans are not sharp. You can be sharp in your own area, I guess, but in this world you gotta be conscious of everybody else in the world too. You just can't be drunken with constitution and hear, okay we're gonna do this and then you hear well, we're gonna go kill this guy 'cause he's a terrorist and you keep gettin' it.

We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.

Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

Ascot is so exclusive that it is the only racecourse in the world where the horses own the people.

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

People all over the world feed upon U.S. cinema and don't know about their own.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.

The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.

My music will mean something. I'll have my own production company. I'm doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand.

"Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know his world and, so far as his art is concerned, any kind of battering from his world is better than his own self-indulgent brooding.

Beyonce knows exactly what she wants, what she needs in her projects, where she wants to go. She's creating her own lane. There's really no one out there who can compete with her. She's in her own world.

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

Sleep hath its own world, and the wide realm of wild reality.

If I could tell the world just one thing It would be that we're all OK And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful And useless in times like these I won't be made useless I won't be idle with despair I will gather myself around my faith For light does the darkness most fear My hands are small, I know But they're not yours, they are my own But they're not yours, they are my own And I am never broken

On the morning of September 11th, I was literally about 18 blocks from the World Trade Center. I witnessed in person what a lot of people witnessed in person, but what the world really saw on the television screen, I saw it with my own eyes that morning.

Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.

Rock stars should be able to tune their own guitars, apply their own eyeliner, and pick out their own leather pants.

SETH said: There is nothing more stimulating, more worthy of actualization, than the desire to change the world for the better. That is indeed each person's mission. You begin by working in that area of activity that is your own unique one, with your own life and activities. You begin in the corner of an office, or on the assembly line, or in the advertising agency, or in the kitchen. You begin where you are.

Be original, stop pretending to be someone you are not, be your own light in this world.

I don't really go out a lot. I kinda live in my own world.

Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

I find having your own car is like a passport to the world.

I'm OK travelling, meeting people, seeing the world with my own eyes.

Everybody in Odd Future is their own artist - they have their own friends and their own ideas for things - so we all spent quite a lot of time separated.

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

Nothing in all the vast universe can come to pass otherwise than God has eternally purposed. Here is a foundation of faith. Here is a resting place for the intellect. Here is an anchor for the soul, both sure and steadfast. It is not blind fate, unbridled evil, man or Devil, but the Lord Almighty who is ruling the world, ruling it according to His own good pleasure and for His own eternal glory.