My World Quotes

The world is made of sugar and dirt.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

And o'er the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she follow'd him.

Too much wit makes the world rotten.

The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.

Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

If we want world peace, we must break the vicious circle of violence and reprisal, of an eye for an eye, of endless hate.

On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies.

In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.

The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.

Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death

Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.

The only legitimate government in the world, is the Iranian government.

You should make the world understand that Israel is the oppressor and that Israel must be destroyed.

The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need.

Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.

Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I cannot conceive of an intelligent First Cause creating human beings through long process of evolution in this world only to destroy them.

In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.

I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.

I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand

When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was.

You could have all the riches in the world, but it doesn't mean much without family.

I think following my instinct has proven to lead me in the right direction, and it's hard to hear sometimes, because it's a noisy world and there's a lot of people talking to you.

Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?

I think what happens in the world, and I think it's part human nature and part programming, is we become an emulation of what we see. We become clones of each other.

Ethically and politically it is important to face up to the need for a universal perspective in our divided, multi-cultural, unequal and unjust world.

It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.

As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into the world.

The biggest thing about growing up in Canada is you know that Los Angeles and New York are not the only places in the world. They're not the only places where brilliant acting happens.

I guess the biggest world difference you can make is in people's relations to their own emotions, 'cause emotions rule so much of our daily life, and I think that's where we work.

One thing that has gone away from civil discussion in America is this idea that our neighbors are not out to ruin the world. We need to come at it from a civil place.

Secrets are great for acting. Secrets are the best thing in the world for acting, because they keep you looking like you have something in the back of your mind.

Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen.

We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity.

The world is abundant with food for us, and with everything we need, if only we just open our eyes. There's so much food that gets thrown out or never harvested.

The distinction between the world of commerce and that of "culture" quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.

Sachin Tendulkar has often reminded me of a veteran army colonel who has many medals on his chest to show how he has conquered bowlers all over the world.

Keep spreading the love, world. But don't get greedy and overpopulate the planet.

A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.

We usually can't know how, and we probably should not even ask, how our lives contribute to a better world.

Kant takes a free will to be a being or substance with the power to cause a state of the world (or a whole series of such states) spontaneously or from itself.

Sometimes when a philosopher's views are widely rejected by the world, the fault is not with the philosopher but with the world.