In The World Quotes

The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a man cannot be said to be"on the side of the stars" at all, unless he makes refusals.

I don't have to change the world all by myself, I just need to partner in the work God wants us to do.

I think it's interesting that the United States and Australia are two of the most individualistic nations in the entire world in terms of national personality.

A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same -- scandal.

The stage is not only a world apart, it is a myriad of worlds, and in those worlds a man can have anything he fancies, if only he believes in what he sees.

I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.

There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.

in this curious world there are certain beings to whom it is given to say of all things with naïve faith, not 'I shall seek,' but 'I shall find.

I'm not naturally a person that wants to exercise, but I find running is something I can do wherever I am in the world.

As in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever.

The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer.

The children's book world has given me wonderful friendships and an unbelievably rich life.

Today we live in a cash-for-trash world. Anyone can stand up and say anything unkind, unfair or completely untrue about you, and then they are rewarded financially for it ... because life is unfair.

Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump.

I'm living in a world where there are LGBTQ straight alliances at high schools. I feel pretty psyched on that.

It is not enough to know what you want, you must also know why you want it, and what you will do once you have it! All those elements impact the world around you and therefore must be considered.

Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.

In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it.

The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where the phoenix burned

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it isn't currently rocking someone else's world.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel and deceitful intentions - in an unreal world.

President Kennedy’s assassination, less than two weeks ago, has struck the world dumb. It’s like no one wants to be the first to break the silence. Nothing seems important.

Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.

The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid.

I know that I've been blessed in many ways, and I was fortunate enough to travel the world and meet a lot of interesting people. But I never felt that the modeling career was all that important.

We are able to help animals all around the world as a result of the media and entertainment business, which is able to spread compassion and change at rapid speed.

I knew I had to be a journalist because I'm deeply curious about the world.

It's these parallel universes when someone you love is sick. Your world is this completely foreign place involving radiation and tumor markers. Outside, people are buying sweaters.

You should just dump the whole saving the world plan and go with global domination. It's probably be more fun.

I think that you should definitely listen to what people say, because everyone says it: High school is not the real world.

I am so grateful for all the love and support I've had from people around the world.

I think the world likes to pick apart different songs and play doctor with songs sometimes and make them into this big controversial thing.

People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing.

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

I don't think it's any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win.

The best thing about the world is that it has a mysterious structure and the worst thing is that it has a grievous structure.

God created the world to be praised on the subtle nature of his existence.

The world can never be in the state of right order, strong government, and good influence unless London is truly and literally established as its capital.

The world exists to let Man philosophize.

Genius is the ability to see the self-evident where the rest of the world turns blind.

I speculate that this is the best of all possible worlds, for philosophy is the best of humanity, and this world is the best philosophically.

I know what the world exists for, but I know not how it came into existence. I see the design, but not the designer. I understand the question, but not the questioner.

The world is solely occupied by a questioner and a philosopher.

For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.

What it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we live in.

Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is something where you've been literally given an opportunity to put the world on pause for a second.

That's what's wrong with the people in this world; they believe they can do well by just getting by when they need to aim for the highest.

As the world grapples with more efficient ways of managing time, it lures us into more and more earthly pursuits. But life is not a struggle with time - it is a struggle between good and evil.