T Quotes
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“The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed by gold. Governments hold on to it as a kind of magic symbol, a way of reassuring people that their money is real.”
“The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.”
“The world's crazy, when it comes to beauty.”
“The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.”
“The world's culture is changing, adapting. People are keeping what's good in a culture, and sweeping out the rest.”
“The world's deadliest poison, can be your own thoughts.”
“The world's decay where the wind's hands have passed, And my head, worn out with love, at rest In my hands, and my hands full of dust.”
Source: The Hawk in the Rain
“The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family, friends, or lovers - to say nothing of one's children - to live according to the world's definitions: one must find a way, perpetually, to be stronger and better than that.”
“The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the height of the Cold War.”
“The world's environment can no longer handle beef.”
“The world's equilibrium hath been upset through the vibrating influence of this most great, this new World Order. Mankind's ordered life hath been revolutionized through the agency of this unique, this wondrous System - the like of which mortal eyes have never witnessed.”
“The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant slave, an untiring steel Negro, controlled by Reason in a world of infinite resources.”
Source: The Shock of the New
“The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the US. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.”
“The world's fat is badly divided.”
Source: The View From The Ground
“The world's favorite season is the spring.
All things seem possible in May.”
Source: North With the Spring
“The world's favorite verb is 'get'. The verb of the Christian is 'give'”
Source: Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional
“The world's finest wilderness lies beneath the waves.”
“The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from each other.”
“The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future”
“The world's forests need to be seen for what they are - giant global utilities, providing essential public services to humanity on a vast scale. They store carbon, which is lost to the atmosphere when they burn, increasing global warming. The life they support cleans the atmosphere of pollutants and feeds it with moisture. They act as a natural thermostat, helping to regulate our climate and sustain the lives of 1.4 billion of the poorest people on this Earth.”
“The world's full of victims and the world's full of terrible perpetrators and I want them identified and caught.”
“The world's geography is not realistic. Geography is not real. Borders are only closed to people but they are open to products. There is another type of geography outside of this matrix. Because of this we noticed we were talking about much more than just Latin America. That was very important to put the film on another level. Based on this idea, we knew that we were not in this world any longer.”
“The world's going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.”
“The world's gotten smaller by virtue of the Internet and new media.”
“The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”
“The world's greatest champion of woman and womanhood is Jesus the Christ.”
Source: Jesus the Christ
“The world's greatest changes are made at home.”
“The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.”
“The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet there is enough confidence between mother and child, husband and wife, buyer and seller . . . to make social life a practical possibility. Confidence may be risky, but it is nothing like so risky as mistrust.”
“The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin.”
“The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.”
“The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.”
“The world's history is the world's judgment.”
“The world's holy texts are built on ancient oral traditions.”
“The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.”
Source: Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Mark
“The world's in a bad way, my man, And bound to be worse before it mends; Better lie up in the mountain here Four or five centuries, While the stars go over the lonely ocean.”
Source: The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
“The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.”
“The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.”
“The world's like a ride in a fairground & when you choose to go on it you think it's real, that's how powerful our minds are”
“The world's major religions in the end all want the same thing, even though they were born in different places and circumstances on this planet. What the world needs today is a convergence of the different religions in the search for and definition of the cosmic or divine laws which ought to regulate our behavior on this planet.”
“The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization. It has grown with civilization, at once as an invidious distinction between classes and more importantly as a tributary relation.”
Source: Stone Age Economics
“The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns”
“The world's most famous and popular language is music.”
“The world's most funniest and easiest thing is to give an advice.”
“The World's most powerful army is the Army of Medicine, as it is fighting against a real enemy, the most powerful one: The Death!”
“The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”
Source: Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
“The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.”
“The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.”