My World Quotes

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.

I'm the slowest driver in the world.

I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.

The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

It is a profound mistake to think that every thing has been discovered; as well think the horizon the boundary of the world.

There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around.

There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.

We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.

I'm not stuck strictly doing hip-hop. Songs from the dance/electronic scene are my favorite to make and remix, and I like that world.

Celtic enjoys a greater community spirit than any other club in the world.

I think the burden is on those people who think he didn't have weapons of mass destruction to tell the world where they are.

If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world.

...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.

All you leave the world is what you've done. No one will ever know the conditions, the comments, the pressures. Only the work remains.

I think we live in a very competitive world, and I love competition.

Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here.

After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.

A stage play ought to be the point of intersection between the visible and invisible worlds, or, in other words, the display, the manifestation of the hidden.

There's a general intuition around the nonprofit world these days that younger generations are less likely to join. But I have found in my research that that's quite wrong.

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

The air is the most mysterious, the most exciting, the most challenging of all the elements. We leave the planet, we leave the sea, we leave the earth. The air is no longer of this world .

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: "Who's the third?"

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world.

A world where nothing is had for nothing.

Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

Art is the most valued thing in the world...it is the expression of the highest form of human energy,the creative power nearest to the divine.The power is within - the question is how to reach it.

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

I've made this conscious decision to tell people on the street when I think they're wearing something great. If more people did that, the world would be a better place.

I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.

Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance.

I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor and do a world tour on my yacht if I don't get any more work.

The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.