In The World Quotes

Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.

[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.

What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.

I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?

Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.

In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near, to what they did at a distance.

The hand is where the mind meets the world.

There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

Asia's culture has planted its roots all over the world, and also has roots in my personal culture.

Cities are 2% of the earths crust, but they are 50% of the worlds population.

Clearly America businesses are interested in opening up new markets not just in Cuba, but all over the world.

Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube.

Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?... Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?

It's not a world war yet, but we're at war, because ISIS has declared war on us.

When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.

I was not seduced by the celebrity side of acting. However, as a British girl watching a lot of American TV, I saw that there was a whole world of opportunity in the States that I wanted to discover.

Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world I want to change.

I think that people get into trouble when they photograph something that they... that is not in their world. It's like when they say "write what you know."

Everyone who doesn't want to believe in supernormal powers says the people who experience them are psycho. What the hell kind of a world is this if all magic moments are psychotic?

This generation I'm a member of, we're sort of infected by this idea that you had to make the world a better place.

Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.

I believe that every artist has his or her own vision of the world; our job as artists is to find and express that vision. The most important thing is to keep exploring, yourself and your materials.

Can I tell you who is the most important fashion icon in the world? Queen Elizabeth of England. Think about that. She has never put her foot anywhere wrong and always looks fantastic.

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.

I just love that feeling of being in another world, of creating characters and watching where they go.

I think it's crucial to live, play and work passionately. I'm inspired by my husband, my son and the sense of possibility in the world.

People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds.

a mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.

Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done.

Everyone in our generation lives in a world where you're surrounded by all sorts of music all the time. People's tastes are made of combinations of genres.

Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.

Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.

... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.

It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.

But our highest objective should be that our children would repent from their sins, put their trust in Jesus Christ, and reflect the gospel to the world around them.

Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed.

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

I'm in a world so wide. It makes me feel small sometimes.

[Carnival Ride] is part of a line from my favorite song on the album, "Wheel of the World." It sums up everything that's happened to me. It's nuts to think of where I was a couple of years ago.

If vampires ever spend less time playing theatrics and living down to their stereotypes, they might actually take over the world someday

I've always believed that it's important to give something back to the world and community.

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

The world is certainty a sudden place.

While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Lovers re-create the world.

It takes the wool from your eyes about how the world works, to show you that nothing's necessarily fair, and that you might have a hard life.