"The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?"
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"Today we are shapers of the world of tomorrow."
"Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don’t think of grown-ups, and we don’t think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget."
"I do not doubt but the majest and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world; I do not doubt there is far more in trivialities, insects, vulgar persons, slaves, dwarfs, weeds, rejected refuse than I have supposed."
"A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them."
"If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?"
"We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time."
"Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover? Now, that's an interesting question."
"Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger—except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller."
"I didn't work hard for success. I worked hard because that's what is in me. I showed up in this world somehow knowing that you have to work hard. You can't just have a thought. You have to follow the thought through."
"I've always been a generous and a kind person and so on, but never, ever have I experienced that kind of love. The world just looked different to me and still does."
"If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds."
"I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release."
"Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest."
"The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing."
"The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind"
"Be patient, for the world is broad and wide."
"O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!"
"This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change, For 'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love."
"O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world."