In The World Quotes

I certainly think that the best book in the world would owe the most to a good index, and the worst book, if it had but a single good thought in it, might be kept alive by it.

The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already claimed most of it.

I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.

We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.

It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.

Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

India riding on MS Dhoni wave, Dhoni is a different man in World Cups

We live in a unipolar world at this point with America as a moral arbiter and the whole morality is based on this insane corporatocracy.

I don't take Twitter too seriously in the physical world.

There's something very magical about water and what happens to it when it freezes. I don't think there's anything else in the world, perhaps in our universe, that is quite like ice.

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round.

He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

We made the world uninhabitable for ourselves and it can only be inhabited by robots and androids.

In some parts of the world, you get scrutinized for saying the wrong thing about art and in other regions, you get scrutinized for saying nothing at all.

There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.

You know things are moving. You're changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we waiting for?

If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?

Joy to the world, the Lord is come / Let earth receive her King / Let every heart, prepare him room / And heaven and nature sing.

Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.

I have T.V. on all the time when I'm writing. I have music on. I'm engaged with the world.

Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.

The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.

The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.

So many of us invest a fortune making ourselves look good to the world, yet inside we are falling apart. It's time to invest on the inside.

Come quickly -- as soon as these blossoms open, they fall. This world exists as a sheen of dew on flowers.

Thank you, Mr.Lewis, for being you. I wouldn't have missed you for the world.

It is ridiculous ever to forget that you and your business are each implanted in the society of the moment. We cannot ignore the world of our time. We had better understand it.

For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

The more we reduce the size of our world, the more we shall be its master.

When Slenderman screams, the world will end.

Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves.

In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.

Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and improving the world is very difficult.

The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders - people who not only have enormous amounts of energy, but who can energize those whom they lead.

The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.

It is very much easier to divide your outlook on the world into two halves, to say that you know this belongs to the daily half and this belongs to the Sunday half.

We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

I realised in Sri Lanka that my dream of playing in a World Cup was a bridge too far.

At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch the world was lost, and at each epoch it was saved.