Whole World Quotes - Page 13

• Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

  John Steinbeck

  World, Life Or Death, Lordship

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.147, Penguin

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• The only acceptable imperialism is the Imperialism of the Forest! Let the whole world are invaded by the tree-soldiers!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Tree, Soldier, World

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• When the whole world starts behaving like a big family, protecting and caring each other, the world will become a good place to live!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Caring, Big Families, World

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• I dream about winning a championship, where everybody is hooting and hollering for you. The whole world is drawn to the NBA Finals.

  Ray Allen

  Dream, Winning, Nba

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• Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this principle, which to him represented all that man was worth, should fail. Mr Hamilton considered democracy a fatal curse, and meant to stop its progress.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Democracy, Progress

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• You are like fireworks. You go out into your children, your friends, your society, and the whole world.

  Nhat Hanh

  Children, World, Fireworks

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2003). “No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life”, p.88, Penguin

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• The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong.

  Zhuangzi

  Judging, World, Action

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• What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm.

  Sigmund Freud

  Doubt, Principles, Purpose

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Obsessional prohibitions are extremely liable to displacement. They extend from one object to another along whatever paths the context may provide, and this new object then becomes, to use the apt expression of one of my women patients, 'impossible' - till at last the whole world lies under an embargo of 'impossibility'.

  Sigmund Freud

  Lying, Expression, Use

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.32, Routledge

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• We grew up creating this whole world view for ourselves because it's not there in the culture. What am I? And I have to build this world view in the absence of books, radio and television, anything, even conversation, Mom or Dad or brother or sister or friends. I have to build a world view of who I am or I go stark, raving mad. Every transsexual in the past has had to do this.

  Kate Bornstein

  Mom, Brother, Dad

  "Gender Outlaws". Interview with Nancy Reynolds Nangeroni and Mariette Pathy Allen, www.gendertalk.com.

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• Some of the albums I like best in the whole world are considered psychedelic albums. A psychedelic album is an album that when you put it on, if you listen to both sides, when it's over, your perceptions have been changed and I think that our record can do that.

  Richard Lloyd

  Thinking, Over You, Perception

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• For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.

  H. L. Mencken

  World, Littles, Truth Seekers

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• We get to be God's plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.

  Bob Goff

  People, World, God's Plan

  Bob Goff (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.143, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Whensoever God's truth is defaced or when any man turns away from the pure simplicity of the Gospel, we must not in any wise spare him, but although the whole world should set itself against us, yet must we maintain the case with invincible constancy, without bending for any creature.

  John Calvin

  Wise, Men, Simplicity

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• I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced.

  Vinessa Shaw

  Quality, Actors, Television

  Source: collider.com

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• In a weird way, it's not different from any other kind of joke-telling. You make those calculations about jokes about celebrities: is this a fair hit or not? The stakes were higher because the whole world was crumbling around us, but in terms of joke-telling, it's all about feel.

  Michael Schur

  Different, Crumbling, World

  "An Interview with Michael Schur". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Thirteen, believermag.com. October 1, 2015.

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• You can kill that man but not his song, When it's sung the whole world round...

  Holly Near

  Song, Men, World

  "Song: It Could Have Been Me (A Live Album)". 1974.

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• If the world is to hear the church's voice today, leaders are needed who are authoritative, spiritual, and sacrificial. Sacrificial, because this trait follows the model of Jesus, who gave Himself for the whole world and who calls us to follow in His steps.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Spiritual, Jesus, Voice

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.18, Moody Publishers

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• Whoever can weep over himself for one hour is greater than the one who is able to teach the whole world; whoever recognizes the depth of his own frailty is greater than the one who sees visions of angels.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Angel, Vision, Depth

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• I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.

  Frida Kahlo

  World, Throat, Whole

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• All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things personally. The whole world of control between humans is based on that.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Drama, Sadness, World

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• Mandela has played a crucial part in history. He's done some extraordinary things, not only for his country but also for the whole world.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Country, Done, World

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• Of course I'm a fake. We're all fakes on this whole world, pretending to be something we're not. We are not just bodies walking around, not just atoms, molecules. We are unkillable, undestroyable ideas of the IS, no matter how much we believe otherwise.

  Richard Bach

  Believe, Ideas, Fake

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• Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.

  Florence Nightingale

  Art, Organization, Giving

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• Peace must first be developed within an individual. And I believe that love, compassion, and altruism are the fundamental basis for peace. Once these qualities are developed within an individual, he or she is then able to create an atmosphere of peace and harmony. This atmosphere can be expanded and extended from the individual to his family, from the family to the community and eventually to the whole world.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Compassion, Community

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