My World Quotes
There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.
A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry.
Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.
The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all.
You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.
He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.
How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me.
When I die, the world dies with me. I'd really like to leave it better than how I found it and I'm doing what I can to effect that.
Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.
There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.
Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.
Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.
The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.
There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.
Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond
The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.
Behind all the hype shaping the electronic highway are corporate interests. These huge companies are doing the most natural thing in the world to them; following their own corporate interest.
Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.
In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.
It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion.
I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.
A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.
Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.
And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.
When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race.
If I remain healthy, I can win more races, but I don't think so much about setting new records. I'm already proud to have become the leading Austrian World Cup racer.
There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.
Saving just one pet won't change the world but surely the world will change for that one pet.
I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.
I have no plans to say or do anything about The Clinton Foundation other than to say how proud I am of it and that I think for the good of the world, its work should continue.
The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration
As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself.
