My World Quotes

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases.

Think what a great world revolution will take place when ... [there are] millions of guys all over the world with rucksacks on their backs tramping around the back country.

I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.

What the world needs now is love, sweet love.

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

Jews are the best dressers in the world. They buy the best clothes, the best homes, the best cars. The best of everything. The only thing is, they get it for less.

With a measly 18 percent of our Congress composed of women, the U.S. ranks just 77th in the world in terms of women in elected office, surpassed by such countries as Ezbekistan and Moldova.

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long rendered obsolete.

Nothing in the world is like this- a bright white page with pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil the soft hush of it moving finally one day into letters.

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.

Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.

Blissfulness does not compel you to behave in any particular way. Out of bliss, I can laugh or cry; I can sit quietly or be active in the world.

I wanted to start a proper academy and recruit juniors from all over Pakistan following my retirement after the World Open in 1993 but there was no support.

To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of move out into the world, you realize everything is so trippy. That anything can be anything.

Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought to some of the awful things happening right now in the world.

You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!

And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky.

You write in order to change the world.

It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice.

Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.

So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.

I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.

The Holy Ghost is the greatest guarantor of inward peace in our unstable world.

For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.

This is why I am calling you to See as God Sees every moment, for it is the only way to release the world you thought was there, in favor of a world that reflects who you really are.

By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.

The world cannot live at the level of its great men.

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today-which is what we expect later this century-sea levels were 25m higher. So that is what we can look forward to if we don't act soon.

...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made greenhouse gases.

You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.

For instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores.

Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.