My World Quotes

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories. One side is the good one. The other one is evil.

Don’t believe anything anyone tells you. You have to evaluate the world with your own eyes.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I wake up every day just fired up. My one rule is, don't let anyone pinch me, because I don't want to wake up.

For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses.

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.

In a world where the great technologies enable us to record, replay, cut and paste, zoom in, and delete, listening is the crucial commitment to keep the heart touchable.

If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.

If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.

What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.

The best feeling in the world is when your child comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because. I can't wait to have more.

If Belgium win the World Cup, I will cut my hair.

If you’re doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of value to the world.

Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.

The world I was born into was one filled with music.

When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.

That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

Be ever watchful. Be watchful of your thoughts, your deedsLest predjudice, resentment,hatred, and intolerance drive Her from your world... Again.

It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

When I step into the batter's box, the fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a battle between me and the pitcher. And more than anything, I want to win.

Jack's [Ma Yun ] theory is that whoever controls data controls the world.

Without a safe haven, one of the most authentic parts of who you are, who you love, felt invisible to the world.

I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

I've dipped my toe into the beauty world and I'd like to keep it there!

University is sheltered from the business world and they think they should not have any connection with the businesses because maybe the business is dirty or not very good.

The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.

I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.

Steinway grand pianos are the best in the world.

The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate.

Whatever bro, tell it to the whales

There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

We are missing Michael. But we do know we had him, and we are the world.