In The World Quotes

Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

Aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally. Even if you miss, you'll probably end up in a pretty good place.

... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.

People link the 80s to that very liberal theme, growing up in a very liberal world, having ideals or not having ideals. The 80s were an confusing era.

Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world.

Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.

We now realize that we're not living in a piecemeal world, but a world where everything is linked together.

You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own?

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

It's very hard for Europe, the US and Russia to have much influence on the growing problems elsewhere in the world unless we have our own backyard in a more stable and cooperative atmosphere.

Patriots is quite simple; there's seven continents in the world, if you had to sacrifice one continent and make it six would you do it?

To Investigate in the superior worlds, the logic thinking and the exact concept are needed.

It is absurd to go away from the world while searching the Truth because it is in the world and inside the man here and now.

I think we live in a world where "the normal," is just a cut that each society creates for itself, but leaves out a number of situations, thoughts, and events as part of what we catalog as normal.

I don't feel like any of the things we're talking about are going to make the world end.

I want to go to someone's world. I'll buy it if the world is full of zombies - I'll live there if you give me a strong enough vision of what that world looks like.

There's something beautiful about working in the one place in the world where the world is present, like United Nations. Otherwise, one would have to go to each of these countries to negotiate.

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, Im afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

I'm often daydreaming and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

You're the best in the world, so you deserve those little perks along the way if you can get them.

The only person I ever hurt was myself and even that I did to the minimum. If you can do that and you're still functioning, you're the luckiest person in the world.

I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'

We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

This world is like Noah's Ark. In which few men but many beasts embark.

This is that rest this vain world lends, To end in death that all things ends.

I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.

You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.

Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.

Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real; but on awaking it vanishes.

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.

New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world.

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.

It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.

There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.

Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.

Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.

The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.

I love to play real people... good people that I know the audience will get behind. It's the good people in the world that I gravitate to.

We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.

Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's a flower, I choose my own 'T is "love in Idleness".

Positive thinking is the key which unlocks the doors of the world.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.