In The World Quotes

The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.

Undertaker, your yard is right in the middle of my world!

If you're not dark inside and you come to this world, it'l turn you dark... and if you really have Sunshine inside you, it's not good to play in the dark. It's just gonna extinguish your fire.

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.

The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.

Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being.

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.

Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue.

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world.

A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

Learn, earn, return - these are the 3 phases of life. Jack Balousek There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone to succeed.

You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.

The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.

I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind... to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)

The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to criticism and denial.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need to inhabit the story we trust.

Each friend represents a world in us.

The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.

Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.

I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the World Championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.

The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.

Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.

Give me 200 active 2-year-olds and I could conquer the world.