The Workings Of The World Quotes

#1. Leonardo da Vinci. He knew and achieved more than possibly any other man that ever lived. He was never satisfied with the knowledge he had; he always wanted to learn more about the workings of the world.

Can Akdeniz

#2. Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit.

Jonathan Stroud

#3. [The sound of the wind] was just more proof that the workings of the world were random, that beauty, like suffering, was meaningless, that human life was as pointless as waves on sand.

Anita Diamant

#4. Just sitting does not involve reaching some understanding. It is the subtle activity of allowing all things to be completely at rest just as they are, not poking one's head into the workings of the world.

John Daido Loori

#5. It requires less skill to love than to be loved.

Robin Skelton

#6. I have always admired most those who lead with their eyes, like Mary Anning, for they seem more aware of the world and its workings.

Tracy Chevalier

#7. Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

Aaron Klug

#8. The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful,
wonderful: I'm surprised half the time

A.R. Ammons

#9. There are different kinds of happy, some kinds don't need any proof. - Ellie O'Neill

Jennifer E. Smith

#10. At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both with the audience and the jury.

James Gray

#11. The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

William E. Gladstone

#12. Being autistic makes me hyper sense things in the world.
Music can intensely enter my soul piercing my inner workings like a light pulsing through me. it can be such an amazing experience

Tina J. Richardson

#13. Look around," Jacob said. "You're right, the shadows are getting longer, but, look at the light too. Look at what's happening to the light. Shadows are dark, always dark, even when they leak out across the grass into the street. But what's happened to the light?

Schuy R. Weishaar

#14. I try not to watch the news. Too depressing.

J.A. Konrath

#15. It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

Charlaine Harris

#16. CONTEMPLATE THE workings of this world, listen to the words of the wise, and take all that is good as your own. With this as your base, open your own door to truth. Do not overlook the truth that is right before you.

Morihei Ueshiba

#17. We worship God, but have no faith in the workings of God's laws of love. The world awaits the living of the law of love, which will reach the divine within all human beings and transform them.

Peace Pilgrim

#18. I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Charles Colson

#19. That I may understand whatever binds the world's innermost core together, see all its workings, and its seeds. - Faust

John Sheehan

#20. My family was amazing; they exposed me to the world of show business, and, boy, it was the '70s and I got to spend a lot of time backstage at theaters and see the inner workings of how this entertainment industry is really put together.

Christian Slater

#21. Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is a reflection on management, Of course there are always exceptional cases.

Alfred P. Sloan

#22. As for the law of moral causation ('karma'): this is human justice dressed up as cosmic justice and then imputed to the impersonal workings of the natural world.

Stephen Batchelor

#23. We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out.

Gwenn Wright

#24. My wish for you, Kallistos, is that you survive as many battles in the flesh as you have already fought in your imagination. Perhaps then you will acquire the humility of a man and bear yourself no longer as the demigod you presume yourself to be.

Steven Pressfield

#25. An understanding washed over Darren. You plan on me running."
"For many, many years." The crooked smile on Trent's mouth sent a shiver throughout my body. He was utterly dangerous when he wanted to be.

Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

#26. A just fortune awaits the deserving.
[Lat., Fors aequa merentes
Respicit.]

Statius

#27. Dreams show what a person takes to eternity - not a heaven but a chaos. Dreams provide a doorway that opens to the inner world of oneself. They show the intricate workings of the mind in ways that cannot be avoided or hidden.

Belsebuub

#28. One must be prepared to fight for one's simple pleasures and to defend them against elegance and erudition and all manner of glamorous enticements.

Amor Towles

#29. Never allow anyone to look down upon you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people

Mark Ruffalo

#31. Let the passions and cupidities and dreams and kinks and ideals and greed and hopes and foul corruptions of all men and women have their day and the world will still be better off, for there is more good than bad in the sum of us and our workings.

Norman Mailer

#32. He who has realized oneness with God possesses all knowledge contained in Him. Knowing the Lord as Beginning and End of all beings and worlds, a true Brahmin has knowledge of the hereafter and of the workings of nature on this plane of existence.

Paramahansa Yogananda