My World Quotes

A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts.

[My subjects] look lost because that is how I see life. I think we are all a bit lost, lost in a world we can't understand.

Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after playing on a world championship team, and I don't think they understand what it is like to play here.

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God in the world seems to me worse off than ordinary men.

I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?

In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.

If I want to believe that life is lonely and that nobody loves me, then that is what I will find in my world.

Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

The world is always young again for just a few moments at the dawn.

The world of extreme sports is also one of the big businesses. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors.

The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.

There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom.

My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

I know how to move between political camps. When everyone in the world hated (Libyan leader Moammar) Gadhafi, I paid him an official visit. It caused an uproar - Lula's visiting the devil!

I'm willing to go wherever with this because music is everything to me. This is my world and how I see it. My music speaks for me in a way that's relatable and truthful.

Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.

When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve.

I feel like I could eat the world raw.

Having money is just the best thing in the world.

The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.

What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is.

How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

If you want to change the world, be that change.

To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren't necessarily meant for you to hear--because how else do you find out about the world?

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.

I do believe that India is a unique case. And you need I think exceptional skills I think to incorporate Indian into the world nuclear order.

Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.

The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind.

To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.

My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.

There is no greater gift to future generations than that we do the work God has asked us to do: love one another, that the world might be made right.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.

There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.

I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

Both scientists and sages have told us what we already know to be true in our hearts: everything is connected. Therefore as we change, the world cannot help but change with us.

All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves.

That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.

I think each human being wants to make their mark on the world in whatever way they can, and maybe everyone has a slight egomaniac inside of them.