We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such stories, which explain how the world began or where the sun goes when it sets, we call myths. Mythology is a natural product of the symbolizing mind; poets, when not making up myths of their own, are still commanding ancient ones.
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also successful otherwise they would not be common. The world therefore tends to become populated by mutually compatible sets of successful replicators, replicators that get on well together
If more husbands and fathers would put as much energy into their marriages and families as they do their jobs, the world would change.
Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after playing on a world championship team, and I don't think they understand what it is like to play here.
Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.
That which makes us DIFFERENT, will make a DIFFERENCE in the world some day. Be Yourself.
All world was one, one windy nothing, My world was christened in a stream of milk.
I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.
The sooner you 'settle' the sooner you'll be allowed home" was the ruling logic; and "if you can't adapt yourself to living in a mental hospital how do you expect to be able to live 'out in the world'?" How indeed?
All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.
God hid the whole world in thy heart.
The world has become more diversified, with women becoming a real power of change.
The brain is a muscle that can move the world.
When we serve others, we serve ourselves. Do not think, I will help others - think rather, I will help my own, my world, because I cannot otherwise be happy.
At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.
Consumers desiring a better world have already achieved some successes in this regard, helping to transform several industries from the ground up.
If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true.
God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.