#world

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset? ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#basically #bother #evil #giving #improve

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. ↗

— Bono

#god #moves #never #pace #paradigm

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#analyze #describe #get #make #model

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#crime #event #last #refuge #spontaneous

Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming. ↗

— Peter Boyle

#just #more #needs #opera #screaming

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#alone #any #arrive #cannot #dramatic

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? ↗

— Fanny Brice

#forget #know #later #pose #posing

My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat! ↗

— Edie Brickell

#come #cook #could #eat #food

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#means #nothing #sadder #standards #than

I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#children #i #i think #place #since