In The World Quotes

There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It . . . gives the brain a small vacation.

Our skin is what stands between us and the world.

Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.

As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.

There is a furnace in our cells, and when we breathe we pass the world through our bodies, brew it lightly, and turn it loose again, gently altered for having known us.

There was a lot of creative energy that I had, that I feel wasn't understood, and I think that whole world for me felt like another family, another place where I could feel heard.

And I knew I would nevr have that everything's-right-in-my-world feeling again.

To start with, anybody who would like the world to be a better place should be able to think like an economist.

It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image.

I made a French film called "Merry Christmas" which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

It has been wonderful to be the home port for the brave and brilliant forces of ABC News around the world and to feel every single night that you and I were in a conversation about the day together.

Because the American people champion liberty, more people in the world live free today than at any time in history. Yet, there is more to be done and it is America who will lead the way.

Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true.

We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.

The Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.

I don’t think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world.

The beauty of Twitter is that more and more people are flocking to it because it's shrinking their world.

I've thought a lot about the world and how George Bush sees the world and it ain't even close.

The financial interdependence of the world's banks is like the interlocking alliances that predated World War I.

There are tribes all over the world who sing and dance every day as part of their lives. And we oughta do that.

In the best of all worlds, the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't.

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

Messi I think is like me, he is the best in the world along with Ronaldinho.

The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it.

God repeatedly uses the least-likely and least-prepared individuals (ourselves included) to make the deepest impact on our world.

We live in a very inspirational point in time. Things are progressing faster and further than ever before. What inspires me most is the world we live in adapting at such a rapid rate.

To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather make odes than beds.

When we discover New Earth - a planet we could call home - the question of the plurality of worlds will come front and center, reminding us yet again that we are not the center of the universe.

If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors.

But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit that tragedies like this one at Virginia Tech help to do that!

Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.

But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated.

My motto in life is 'If you think it, you can do it' and if we all apply that thought we can end hunger the world over.

Things go wrong when the people who control that world stop listening to their own instincts and start catering to their fan base.

Reality itself is [made up of] chance processes linked to sets of rules - this is what drives the world, the universe, and just about anything a human being can imagine.

I'd say most of my work is just trying to make sense of the disorienting and overloaded world that we inhabit. We're bombarded with sound at every level.

Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?

Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.

I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.

Every time I come to Europe, I'm just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

You never know what's going to happen to you when you head out into the big world. And when you get older, you don't know how you're going to be thought of or seen.

The Bible says that God uses the foolish things and the base things of the world to accomplish His work. He apparently uses the tone deaf of the world to do something too.

I've learnt that the world over, everyone's essentially the same. We are all trying to have a nice time and get along with things.

Prince Charles is the best-dressed man in the world.

Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.

It is the privilege of adults to give advice. It is the privilege of youth not to listen. Both avail themselves of their privileges, and the world rocks along.

I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.