In The World Quotes

When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school.

Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend.

Personally, emotionally, I'd rather divorce myself from the world than face the heartbreak of partial success. Because partial success implies overwhelming failure.

I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here, too. One who interprets his world through his own filter.

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.

Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective- a new world order-can emerge... We are now in sight of a United Nations that performs as envisioned by its founders.

The world used us as an excuse to go mad.

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.

Half the world knows not how the other half lies.

The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.

I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.

Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.

Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.

The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is feasible.

And I tell you truly, Danaerys, there is no man in all the world who will ever be half so true to you as me.

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).

A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.

The man at the center [Donald Trump], soon to be the world's most powerful, now shoulders the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans, the fear and anxiety of millions more.

America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world, and no one will keep that light from shining.

I equate freedom and peace. And I believe America, given its position in the world, must use our power to promote freedom.

Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.

We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

There are two things in the world that can never get together- religion & common sense.

In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

Apocalypse is the eye of a needle, through which we pass into a different world.

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.