My World Quotes
Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .
The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.
The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.
One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.
In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.
I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.
The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.
There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That's what I love doing.
To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.
I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.
In all my travels I have never seen the hospitality of San Francisco equalled anywhere in the world.
There's strength in numbers. Once we show the world that we're together, they can't stop us.
There's lots of interesting stuff happening in the world. Lots of good and bad things, and there's interest in music still, which there always will be, which is always a good thing.
A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world.
Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way.
We must not lose our trust in the power of truth. Everything is always changing in the world.
You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing?
I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you can't really go backwards.
Refine your senses a little more each day; stretch them...your awareness will pierce deeply into your body and into the world.
I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished
Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else.
I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.
We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.
The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.
It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.
We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.
I really believe in setting goals, no matter what it is: whether it's losing five pounds or making the world championship team.
I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.
Fictional comedy tells us that the writer is remarkable. Factual comedy tells us that the world is remarkable. I suppose I prefer to live in a remarkable world.
The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.
Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.
I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world.
Britain is characterised not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness. We have always been a country that reaches out. That turns its face to the world.
I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world face.
A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds.
