My World Quotes

In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.

An unnoticed corner of the world suddenly becomes noticed, and when you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it becomes sacred. (On Robert Frank's photography)

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole self - all of those different aspects of it.

Compassion can change a lot of things, including the world. Young people especially need to know that, because they're the future.

Ebola has shown that the world is not ready to deal with an epidemic on this scale.

But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government.

Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.

Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.

Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist has ever read into the pages of the Bible.

DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.

Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.

What’s hard about being on the other side of the world is that sometimes the problem feels so big that changing one life doesn’t feel like enough. But it is.

I am a soul in the world: in the world of my soul the whirled light from the day the sacked land of my father.

World is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.

Echo of your thoughts has greater impact on the world than your actions.

A Christian Anarchist does not depend on bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused and dying world.

Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'

Empowering women isn't for women, but for the world.

We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together. I just cry and laugh.

In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude.

It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.

I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world.

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.

I never became a recluse where I got away from people and who they are and how they think. I'm very much in touch with the world.

The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent.

I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work.

Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

The world is one big data problem.

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

We have to prepare our teenagers and our children for a world away from us. That requires explanations. That requires understanding.

You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.

The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.

I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.

I've learned... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.

Employers need to recognize that the world has changed and there are people who would like to help them provide solution in ways that are new, modern and that add value to companies.

In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely.