T Quotes
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“The world - and America - has been defined by people who haven't necessarily abided by the laws and the rules. Civil disobedience is part of our nation's history and has redirected our country in many instances, from the feminist movement to the Civil Rights movement and beyond.”
“The world - this shadow of the soul, or other me - lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult... So much only of life as I know by experience... The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power.”
“The world ... is full of people who never knew what hit 'em, their lives are over before they wake up.”
Source: Rabbit is Rich
“The world [is] now seeing might is right.”
“The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.”
“The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.”
Source: The Relations Between Poetry and Painting
“The world accommodates you for fitting in, but only rewards you for standing out.”
“The world according to Bubba is simple - if it aggravates you, stop it. By whatever means necessary.”
“The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.”
“The world adamantly declares that we should live for things that will actually kill us in the living. And for many, the conviction to believe in these things outweighs the inevitability of the truth that they deny. Yet such is the power of these convictions that the reality of the lies are not even realized at the point that the promises aren’t delivered. Rather, the realization doesn’t happen until the life is over and the world got its way.”
“The world admires wealth and velocity—these are the things for which everyone strives. Railroads, the post, steamboats, and all possible modes of communication are the means by which the world overeducates itself and freezes itself in mediocrity.”
Source: Faust
“The world admits bears in pits do it, Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.”
“The world ain't so bad, when you got Japhies, I thought, and felt glad. All the aching muscles and the hunger in my belly were bad enough, and the surroundant dark rocks, the fact that there is nothing to soothe you with kisses and soft words, but just to be sitting there meditating and praying for the world with another earnest young man -- 'twere good enough to have been born just to die, as we all are. Something will come of it in the Milky Ways of eternity stretching in front of all our phantom unjaundiced eyes, friends. I felt like telling Japhy everything I thought but I knew it didn't matter and moreover he knew it anyway and silence is the golden mountain.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“The world ain't straight, Vivian. Never will be. Our rules, the don't mean a thing. The world just happens to you sometimes, is what I think.”
Source: City of Girls
“The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose interest in heavenly things. Friends reasoned with me & told me of the danger I was in. I felt my danger & was alarmed, but I had rambled too far to return & ever since my heart has been growing harder.”
“The world also remains a hopeful place. Calls for democracy and human rights are being reborn everywhere, and these calls are an expression of support for the values enshrined in the United Nations Charter. They encourage our hopes for a more stable, more peaceful, more prosperous world.”
“The world always looks straights ahead; as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself; I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward; as for me, I roll about in myself.”
“The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.”
“The world always said to just be yourself, but it turned out when Evelyn was herself, no guys were at all interested, so she was left with games of make-believe, expressing enthusiasm for whatever the men wanted to do, be it rock climbing or going to a cheese-beer pairing or a Knicks game.”
Source: Everybody Rise
“The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.”
“The world always seems like it's going to hell when you're depressed. And, of course, it always is going to hell in some way. That's what makes it so hard to tell the difference between Armageddon and the blues.”
“The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty and the magic and the knowingness of it and me.”
Source: Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story
“The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed, if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.”
“The world and it's people are my church".
~R. Alan Woods [1996]”
Source: The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal
“The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.”
“The world and life's too big to pass for a dream”
Source: MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life
“The world and man are identical. This is why racism is the most stupid thing in the world.”
“The world and much of the church says, "don't judge", but what we tell our church is; yes, please judge, with righteous judgment according to the word of God (John 7:24).”
Source: How I Made It Out Alive: My Devotional Journey to Freedom Over Fear and Depression
“The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.”
“The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.”
“The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.”
Source: A Mute Christian Under the Rod & Apples of Gold
“The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world - nothing glows.”
“The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.”
“The world appluads the performance, never the pain behind it.”
Source: The Paper Cut Manifesto: Every Star Has Secrets. Hers Left Scars.
“The world around him began to change. Voices
became inaudible and his gaze was stuck on the man
on the ground. Elijah was taken out of that state by
Vanessa’s voice.”
Source: Death's Rattle
“The world around me blurred, and for a fleeting moment, all that mattered was this blissful escape.”
Source: Unbound by Midnight
“The world around me was on the verge of great transformations. Death had already taken John Coltrane who was joined now by so many others. People screamed there'd be revolutionary changes - which always seemed to be just ahead, at the curve in the road. But the "changes" that came were just two-dimensional stage sets, backdrops without substance or meaning.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any two people are charged with them all. He had learned early in his life that before any violent gesture there is a moment when the act is born, not as something that can be seen or felt, but by the change it precipitates in the air.”
“The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few of you, it may be nearly drowning you. To anyone struggling under the burden of sin, I say again with the Prophet Joseph that God has ‘a forgiving disposition’ (Lectures on Faith, 42). You can change. You can be helped. You can be made whole—whatever the problem.”
“The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it”
“The world around us is nothing more and nothing less than a mirror of what we have become from within.”
“The world around us will continue to turn, and our surrounding environment will forever play a role in influencing our lives.”
“The world around you is not equipped to provide the help you need to make it through this often treacherous journey.”
“The world around you is some kind of distraction at best, and evil at worst, and you should be turning away from it.”
“The world around you know only that reflects on you, that is the success of a joker too.”
“The world around you may ask you to stop Dreaming Big, as it could create insecurity in their
lives. Dream Big anyway, dance to your own music and let them dance to theirs.”
Source: Live More: Magic Begins with You
“The world as dreamed and the world as lived cross-pollinate each other.”
“The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of his parents.”
Source: Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
“The 'world-as-it-is,' as activists call it, is rife with possibility. It's ready to break open into the world-as-it-should-be. Part of crossing over the barrier is acting like we're already there.
This is why protesting and working for change are not the only practices of revolution. We must dance, sing, cook, eat, and meet one another in love. Many call it foolishness, but we are cracking open the tomb and letting God's world break in.”
Source: For All Who Hunger: Searching for Communion in a Shattered World
“The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality.”