In The World Quotes
Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.
It's like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn't want you, what can I do about it? I can try to help you, but if she does not want to marry you what can I do?
The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.
Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.
The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.
I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world.
From the beginning, the internet has been dominated by white men. So if you wanted to be a part of the internet and you weren't a white man, you had to adapt yourself to their world.
For a lot of geeks, gaming is all about stripping who you are completely and entering this imaginary space, this world that's made for you, where winning and losing have nothing to do with real life.
When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.
What we makes of the world must be largely dependent on the sense-organs that we happen to possess. How the world must have changed since the man came to rely on his eyes rather than his nose.
I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.
More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.
The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.
In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.
The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.
The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.
A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger.
THE PRICE grew out of a need to reconfirm the power of the past, the seedbed of current reality, and the way to possibly reaffirm cause and effect in an insane world.
I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero.
It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.
For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.
This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.
The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.
Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.
The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.
I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony.
I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our communication and creating a compassionate world.
Cage the People, Free the Money. The only thing that is allowed to move freely - unimpeded - around the world today is money... capital.
If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old. It could end in an afternoon.
Stable markets, unstable world. Efficiency. Everybody hears about it. It's enough to make you want to be pro-inefficiency and pro-corruption.
Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre and prose and then movies and TV.
Whenever I write a part, I think there's this person somewhere in the world that this part is specifically for and all I have to do is go searching to find that particular individual.
With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.
