In The World Quotes

Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).

Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timbered, never gives; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.

Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.

Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind.

He that deales in the world needes foure seeves.

If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.

In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]

And thus was kept the first Christmas, the Christmas in the year one, with carols by the choir of heaven, and God's own Son, the Saviour of the world, coming as a Christmas gift for all mankind.

It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.

The free market is constantly under attack from those who believe that they know how to make the world a better place with properly administered doses of state coercion.

The subtle dance of the body joins us to the world.

If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.

One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves to theorize concerning him rather than to obey him.

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.

Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.

If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now!

You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.

To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our lives. In reality, the world is much more complex than that.

World is full of followers and leaders, and I think that if one can become both and be both, to follow in order to lead, and to lead in order to follow, then I think you're on the right path.

Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.

He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable

You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.

China is absolutely one of the biggest players in the world and if Britain wants to be connected to the world it has to be connected to China.

You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.

Even a China growing at 7% or indeed less is still adding to the world economy an economy equivalent to the UK or more.

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

If you put all the European countries together, we are the biggest economy in the world.

I have been collecting pictures of airport carpets since the early 2000s because I am fascinated by their role as the world's largest interior visual design medium.

You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont

It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him.

Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.

Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you'll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.

There could be great thrillers or great dramas or great comedies made in that world but everyone's afraid of it. So you have to do them as these crazy little independent movies.

Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried me.

Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?

science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

The whole past and the whole world are alive in my heart, and I shall do my part to communicate their presence to my readers.

The most hopeful thing in the stories, I hope, is wit. I make it up. If I make up a world in which we're ruled by big talking turds, it doesn't mean that we are. So you shouldn't feel depressed.

If you're going to make an emotional connection with somebody, whether it's in the story or in the world, there's a certain amount of self-acceptance that is required.

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

I believe that, when [meeting of writer and reader] happens and the reader goes out into the world the next day, there's some alteration that might possibly inflect the person positively.