T Quotes
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“The world as it is perceived by most people, is a world of finite resources.”
“The world as it was, is, or will be, is beyond common sense, beyond natural understanding: it must be taught.”
Source: Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature: Worldly Teaching
“The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist....It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door.”
Source: Meditations with Merton
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
“The world as we know it, cruel, dark and hopeless, have gifted us one more reason why, as a species, shoud we accept the fact that we're living in absolute ignorance. One more chunk of food for our fears and desperations. One more nightmarish and haunting thought for our dreams.”
Source: Svetioničar - Pritajeno zlo
“The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.”
“The world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently.”
“The world asks, as it asks daily:
And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured?
I count, this first day of another year, what remains.
I have a mountain, a kitchen, two hands.”
Source: The Asking: New and Selected Poems
“The world asks, "What does a man own?"; Christ asks, "How does he use it?"”
“The world asks, How much does he give? Christ asks why does he give?”
“The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.”
“The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.”
“The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.”
“The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.”
“The world awaits the unique masterpiece that only you can compose with the GENIUS in YOU!”
“The world awaits your products. Humanity lives in eager expectation of your products. Begin to convert your time into products. Begin to gain the mastery over your talents and gifting.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It's a morning yearning.”
“The world badly needs more peaceful and loving men like Sri Chinmoy. I am a Muslim and he is serving all people of peace. Sri Chinmoy is doing so much for the world, for people of all faiths, because of his own peace and faith.”
“The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.”
“The World Bank is the monopoly provider of poverty data and, partly due to a leadership change there, the World Bank's reporting has been heavily on the rosy side since about 2000. The Bank's cultivation of an upbeat picture affords a very interesting lesson in statistics and how you can, depending on which numbers you present and how you present them, create a more positive or more negative impression of the evolution of poverty.”
“The world became informed about the extent of the catastrophe and the losses by the big powers eclipsed the numbers of Estonias who perished. When counting Hitler's victims there was no interest in Stalin's victims. Stalin belonged among the victors. Since victors are not judged, a half century later it is still ignored that the number of Stalin's victims exceeds Hitler's (Applebaum 2003). In addition, only rarely does one hear references to the fact that Soviet union0s criminal acts have not been expiated.”
Source: Carrying Linda's Stones: An Anthology of Estonian Women's Life Stories
“The world became more aware that America-despite being the hope of many who have the personal drive and ambition to become part of the "American dream"-is beset by serious operational challenges: a massive and growing national debt, widening social inequality, a cornucopian culture that worships materialism, a financial system given to greedy speculation, and a polarized political system”
Source: Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power
“the world becomes a better place – an easier place to navigate if we admit that even though there are opinions, they may be wrong.”
“The world becomes a pageant of diversity with its differences neatly organised and selected.”
Source: Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists
“The world becomes a wider place, with but a little learning.”
Source: The Firebird
“The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.”
Source: The Lords and The New Creatures
“The world becomes an ocean, the ocean washes over me, the sound of water is deafening, the water drowns my heart, my panic becomes as large as planets. I need release, I need to hurt myself more than the world can hurt me, and then I can comfort myself.”
Source: Girl in Pieces
“The world becomes more rewarding when you let yourself look beyond what you're searching for.”
“the world becomes small when you have a great heart.”
“The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.”
“The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.”
Source: The Miles Between
“The world before your eyes is finite, the universe inside your soul is infinite.”
“The world began in hazard and will end in it.”
Source: The Magus
“The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.”
“The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or did not think he needed to. Because for a goodly part of his life he worked in a graveyard.”
Source: The Secret Scripture
“The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.”
“The world begins with every kiss.”
“The world begins with what we believe.”
“The world behaves differently when I take action to go after what I want.”
“The world bein’ so small ain’t always a good thing for those of us who ain’t searchin’ for new and different stuff.”
Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy
“The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.”
“The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.”
“The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.”
“The world believes ‘asakti’ [infatuation, attraction of atoms] to be love and (then) become confused. Woman has some work from men and men has some work from women. All this has arisen because of work (expectations). If work does not get completed, all within will complain and form an attack. Not for even a second has anyone become one’s own. Only the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] will become yours. That is why the Lord has said, ‘Every living being is an orphan’.”
“The world believes it was built by love but reading Shah Jahan’s own words on the Taj, one could say it was grief that built the Taj Mahal and it was sorrow that saw it through sixteen years till completion.”
Source: The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries
“The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature and its songs, and they are deeply invested in how children are treated, because the children are the ones who will keep it going. The idea that each of us has the right to change everything is a deep insult to them.”
“The World belongs to me. And I belong to the World.”
“The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.”
“The world belongs to passionate driven people.”
“The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.”