My World Quotes

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it.

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren--and so it is; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.

We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it.

The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.

The world is ashamed of being virtuous.

Many of us carry memories of an influential teacher who may scarcely know we existed, yet who said something at just the right time in our lives to snap a whole world into focus.

The EU should help the emergence of "organized multipolarity" in the currently non-polar world.

They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the business of living in the world.

I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to come with me where I want her to go.

I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.

What does it mean, to lose one's mind? Where does it go? If a man is out of his mind, where is he? What is insane when the world is mad by contrast?

The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.

I know the team, as a whole, has had an impact on the youth of the church, and on the missionary efforts throughout the world.

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.

If the Americans do move the embassy to Jerusalem, and eventually the rest of the world follows suit, it will mark the end of Palestinian hopes for a two-state solution.

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

I believe the United States should join the rest of the world through paid family and medical leave. It would cost us a $1.61 a week in an increase in payroll tax.I think that's a great investment.

Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with consequences that could be dire.

I only work in relation to what the work is about. Yes, of course, if the world's coming to an end I would basically try to get out of the way when the sky falls.

Now "professional" seems to be whoever you went to school with. It constitutes your nuclear world. And that's the fault of the teachers; it's not the fault of the young artist.

You know, it's a long world.

From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly.

It's so important, so comforting, to have lampposts in this world who can light the way.

My #1 goal is to become a successful singer and share my gift with the world.

Without you, there'd be no sun in my sky, there would be no love in my life, there'd be no world left of me.

I never really had any friends my age. I've grown up in the adult world all my life.

The world when I was 13 wasn't truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to have a little more of a private life.

The thing I learned was the lack of coordination in research projects in the world and therefore you will have gaps in what we could possibly learn from these research projects.

It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions.

The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.

I never wanted to leave Cleveland. My heart will always be in that area - in a perfect world I would have loved to stay.

Messi is the best player in the world. If he's not already, he'll be the best footballer of all time.

Why should I care? I have all the money in the world.

For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.

I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.

I'm not here to change the music world, but I'm definitely here to show what I can do and express myself through my music.

Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.

I know too well how you can go from feeling like your sister knows you better than anyone else in the world, to feeling jealous of her, to wanting to strangle her ha-ha.

The Internet is perfect for delivering large blocks of text to people throughout the world for free. That's a plus. The downside is the ADD, the Internet-addled Attention Deficit Disorder.