My World Quotes

The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world."--Odd Thomas

In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows

The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.

When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is was given - my primary defense, my consolation, is the absurdity of that world

I think the world is an interesting place and I don't think anybody has the firm and final answer to what it is but I kind of assume there's a purpose.

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

By rubbing up against the world, I define myself to myself.

The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.

You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs.

I have the largest private collection in the world [of Hollywood memorabilia].

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

As fast as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire.

How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape?

But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.

I'm a goner, a kid who stays up half the night trying to figure out the horror of the world and trying to survive it.

I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed to get a whole world into such a small space.

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

I just want to sleep, and eat, and learn about what's going on in the world.

Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.

Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.

Being excited about what we do every day and sharing our gifts with the world is how we cultivate joy and energy.

When you stay in the moment, you have all the time in the world, and whatever needs to be done will be completed in the exact right time.

I am not in the world. The world is in me.

Consciousness regulates and becomes the flow of energy and information in your body, your relationships, and your world.

I think we will never find ultimate happiness. But I see a world of peace, harmony, laughter, love and non-violence and the elimination of poverty.

Curving back within myself I create the world around me.

You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you.

There are as many versions of God as there are people in the world.

The world is a mirror for us – whatever you say about others is really how you feel about yourself.

Look at the world as a reflection of your inner state.

You believe that you live in the world, where in fact the world lives within you.

The deeper meaning and gift of yoga is the path it offers us into the timeless, spaceless world of spirit.

I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity.

The styling takes you straight into the world of a specific film.

The world is God’s salvation.

A message to the best football supporters in the world. We need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you? Let's be having you. Come on!

I believe in empathy. When religion provides that for people, it's the best thing in the world.

If it weren't for people that stand out, this whole world would be really, really boring.

If the world runs out of chocolate today... It was not my fault. :l

The world is ours if we want it, we can take it, if you just take my hand

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

I don't read reviews, and I don't include the press as part of my priorities or as part of the world that has any validity to what's really important to me.

If stupid hurt, the whole planet would be a world of pain.

The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world.

We live in a world where we're all on computers and tablets and phones, all the time, so something as odd as computer hacking or a virus is really scary because it gets to the heart of our security.

I still write what I need to write - but I can't deny that something has changed when I think about sending work out. Maybe it's just growing older and feeling more responsible to the world.

Through the hollow globe, a ring of frayed rusty scrapiron, is it the sea that shines? Is it a road at the world's edge?

The world is not with us enough. O taste and see.