In The World Quotes

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.

If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy.

Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are; it's about the situation they're in.

The Victorian world is extremely dark and extremely bright.

Why are we ignoring the rest of the world? We need to have a fair and global response to migration.

We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.

I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.

Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things.

My point is: in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.

The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right?

...I've just been feeling insecure since I was 20, and that's all I've been trying to express. Now the entire world is feeling insecure.

It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again.

Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.

Either I'm funny or the world's funny. I don't know which. The bottle and lid don't fit. It could be the bottle's fault or the lid's fault. In either case, there's no denying that the fit is bad.

[...] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.

she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing.

The unwaking world was as hushed as a deep forest.

Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.

Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.

I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

The world is full of ways and means to waste time.

Probably." "Again with the probablys." "A world full of probablys," she said.

Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for sure.

When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would just keep raining so the three of us could stay together.

The world is full of more interesting things than my voice.

I have the world's worst taste in men, so now I simply have wonderful relationships of the friend kind, but trying to settle down with somebody? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm beyond that.

There is a place in the world for anyone in the world who says, "I'll take care of it."

Keep in mind that there are many neurotoxins in the world. Dozens of natural and industrial substances have neurotoxic properties.

All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.

I'm not much interested in prizes, whether from the Arab world or from the Western world. Writing is a very difficult process and I want to continue my work.

I've been working on the margins and I was aware of this choice from the start. I buy most of what's written and produced in the Arab world and I don't much like it.

Losing hope means ceasing to love my son and my girlfriend and many friends and people around the world.

The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities.

Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.

Wherever I am in the world, I never get Sunday night blues. I suppose it's because I've never worked at any one thing long enough to start hating it.

Some of the songs have a tinge more pop this time. I wanted to go into different worlds.

I'm really happy to have set the world record for the fastest disabled woman, but I think I can go much faster.

There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

With the Cubs, they've gone so long without a World Series championship, they wanted to win every day. I want that too, but I didn't feel comfortable.

I developed a crazy face rash after I got engaged to a guy I must have known somewhere I should not marry. I hadn't articulated this to myself, so my face told the world instead.

I really did for a few weeks think, I'm in pain because the world needs me to save it. Which is so ridiculous and egotistical.

Every woman is the gift of a world to me.

I think the penny has dropped that the All Blacks aren't automatically just going to be the best team in the world.

Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.

It isn't ever the world you fight. Always, always, it's yourself.

With so many dark things to worry about in the world right now, I hope people will just go with the fun and enjoy [ Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].

Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.