T Quotes
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“The world has millions of records on people who badly wounded and hurt their friends, people who didn't value the intrinsic value of man, don't come and add up to this. Be a true friend others could count on.”
“The world has more winnable people than ever before but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed.”
“The world has never been a safe place, for anybody. Maybe you inherit a tail from your dad and maybe you get hired by a carnival that tempts you more than you can resist. Or maybe you're born into a family of monster hunters and feel like your back is up against the wall. We don't get -safe-. We just get to choose what kind of dangerous we go after.”
“The world has never been as divided as it is now, what with religious wars, genocides, a lack of respect for the planet, economic crisis, depression, poverty, with everyone wanting instant solutions to at least some of the world's problems or their own. And things only look bleaker as we head into future.”
Source: Aleph
“The world has never before had as much drama as today. Radio, films, television and video inundate us with drama. But while these forms can engage or even enrage the audience, in none of them can the viewer’s response alter the artistic event itselfThat is why theatre is signing its own death warrant when it tries to play too safe. On the other hand, that is also the reason why, although its future often seems bleak, theatre will continue to live and to provoke.”
“The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.”
Source: The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918
“The world has never had a good definition
of the word liberty”
“The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.”
“The world has never had a greater need for enlightened women and men.”
“The world has never known the freedom and liberty it did until the United States some 230 years ago - and if that light is extinguished, then it's over for the resolute world as well. There's nowhere else. That has been a tenet of American foreign policy from the beginning, the recognition of liberty and freedom as essential to the human condition as created by God.”
“The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century will be the most interesting, exciting, peaceful era in history.”
“The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.”
“The world has no circumference. It would certainly have a circumference if it had a centre, in which case it would contain within itself its own beginning and end; and that would mean that there was some other thing which imposed a limit to the world - another being existing in space outside the world. All of these conclusions are false. Since, then, the world cannot be enclosed within a material circumference and centre, it is unintelligible without God as its centre and circumference.”
“The world has no hold on you. Whatever has a hold on you comes from your mind.”
Source: Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China
“The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.”
“The world has no long injustices.”
“The world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a matter of principle God does not make cowardly nations free.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“The world has no room for cowards.”
Source: Works
“The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.”
“The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack”
“The world has not been a wise world because of the enormous number of people who are chasing money rather than self-improvement!”
“The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet.”
Source: Swami Vivekananda on Himself
“The world has not just "turned upside down". It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.”
“The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.”
“The world has not seen the equanimity (sambhaav) of the Gnanis (enlightened Ones) at all. In fact, the Gnani has a state of absolute detachment (vitaraagata) in attachment (raag). The people of the world look for vitaraagata in vitaraagata. Actually, one should have vitaraagata in raag.”
Source: The Guru and The Disciple
“The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium.”
“The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time... it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.”
“The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.”
“The world has not yet such a thermometer or measure that can check one's idiocy.”
“The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.”
“The world has obviously changed in terms of the way filmmakers and actors and writers often look at their own careers. They all seem to want to include in their own process - along with some of their iconic and franchise-driven movies.”
“The world has only as much power over you as you give it. Rebel. Go beyond duality.”
“The world has our hands, but our soul belongs to Someone Else. Six days a week we seek to dominate the world, on the seventh day we try to dominate the self.”
Source: The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man
“The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.”
“The world has physical limits that we are already encountering, but our economy operates as if no physical limits exist.”
“The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.”
Source: Tales from the Secret Annexe
“The world has plenty room for everyone, but no world is room enough for the bigot.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires."”
Source: GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD
“The world has produced about 1 trillion barrels of oil since the start of the industry in the nineteenth century. Currently, it is thought that there are at least 5 trillion barrels of petroleum resources, of which 1.4 trillion is sufficiently developed and technically and economically accessible.”
Source: The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
“The world has progressed to the point where it's most powerful force is public opinion. And I believe that in this world it is not the great book or epic play, as once was the case, that will shape that opinion, but those who understand mass media and the techniques of mass persuasion...We must not just believe in what we sell. We must sell what we believe in. And we must pour a vast energy into those causes.”
“The world has provided us with a miraculous environment for our existence; the only way to repay our debt is to make a great contribution to the world's existence!”
“The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition
“The world has seen thousands of prophets, and the world has yet to see millions”
Source: The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited
“The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.”
“The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.”
“The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.”
“The world has takers and givers, the moment you decide to be a taker you will always be in want, scarcity and on downward spiral. Givers are always watered and never wither even in the dry season.”
“The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“The world has to save Syria. I mean, this has dramatic implications for the entire region, globally.”
“The world has to tell us. In other words, we don't have an agenda or a battle plan or a map or a direction or anything. We're just going along, and our world is telling us.”