In The World Quotes

In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.

....Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.

I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?

How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.

The world is a big place," he said, "but so is the inside of an apartment!

Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.

Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.

But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.

Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really cheap stuff.

Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit.

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.

We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms.

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.

I would certainly never want to inflict anything on the world exactly as [Buckminster Fuller] envisioned it because there is a technocratic worldview that I find horrific.

What we need to do is we need to say, how can - how can we operate independently in terms of putting together these various technologies in order to be able to make the world a better place?

I think what we need to do is we need to seek some other way in which to do what is potentially good work by Google. Google has made the world a better place in some ways.

What I think is really interesting is to look at the culture of disruption and of world-changing in terms of what [Buckminster] Fuller was doing and to draw the contrast more than the similarity.

I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.

He saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied.

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.

Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world.

Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldnt bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.

The problem with me is I always think I should've done better. I felt that after the World Cup final and through my whole career.

I'm not necessarily proud of the World Cups and the grand slams won or lost, the amount of points I scored, this record or that.

A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.

I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest thing in the world.

I live in a grey world, rather like the silver screen world. But yellow stands out.

The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.

He's (his father Jorge Posada IV) happy for me. He remembers all of my big games. When I hit my first home run in the World Series, he was here, and he cried. It's like I'm living his dream.

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.

When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz.

Drawing a comparison to football, it could be said that the Spanish economy has, during this legislature, into the Champions League of the world economy, however bad that may seem to some.

We are the envy of Europe and in a few years time we are going to be one of the top countries in the world.

There are countries that prefer to think that they're buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don't think that's the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups.

Four wins in four matches. It could not be better... the world is fantastic.

For Chelsea, I would turn down every job in the world.

The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.

I think artists should define themselves. They should speak about their work and how it relates to society and what's going on in the world.

I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.

We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.

At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.

We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.

Each person in the world is different and has their own beautiful sound in the symphony of life.