My World Quotes

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

I'm blown away by the graphical detail of today's games. I can't imagine that it's going to get any better, but it's just going to continually progress and soon we'll be living in that world.

But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.

Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.

The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.

Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.

We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.

Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.

If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.

I think our collective psychosis is hilarious. With the world moving as fast as it is, if we weren't dysfunctional, we couldn't function.

I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.

Find good in what the world says is evil.

The swimsuit and jeans look is my favorite. It was a big part of my introduction to the world as an artist. It was so cool to see girls wearing swimsuits with their jeans during that time.

The strength of women and women's rights around the world are especially important because that affects children and families. And the cascade effect is remarkable.

Some people swear there's no beauty left in the world, no magic. Then how do you explain the entire world coming together on one night to celebrate the hope of a new year?

[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.

We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.

Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.

…there’s nothing in the world more fun than doing something you’re good at.

Always, worlds within worlds.

The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.

Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.

She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him.

I like being tested. I get as scared as anyone. But the feeling of putting yourself on the line, betting on your talent and having it work; that's the most exhilarating feeling in the world.

Justice for All in the World

In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a jazzman in the world of ideas.

The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."

The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1.

There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world's best player. It is all about trying to be the best. I will keep working hard to achieve it but it is within my capabilities.

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.

Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.