My World Quotes

The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield.

Analyzing a concept can (perhaps) tell you what the concept means (at least means to some philosophers), but it does not tell you anything about whether the concept is true of anything in the world.

The world is full of mystery but it must not be choked with secrets: we must talk to one another.

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

As we get older, our world gets smaller and we start to doubt and question. We are really suspicious of difference.

I myself was terrified during the Second World War. The war started when I was six, and I was so sure that we were going to be bombed and killed. My imagination is my biggest plus and my worst minus.

If you want to change the world, you change the world of a child.

Japan redefined world power. They showed you could become a world power without having a military.

It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.

happy people have got something to give to the world.

What the people of the world want most and have always wanted is bread and peace.

You can have the greatest strategy in the world but what is the point if no one cares?

I went into very deep research as to what exactly that meant and how sociopaths function psychologically and within the world.

Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal

Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?"No," he said. "They're the ones who are asking for too little."

That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.

I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.

A world at prayer is a world at peace

Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.

With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.' 'Courting, dear,' my father corrected gently. 'Semantics,' she shrugged.

What has made me most proud - the things that I've done that I feel the most pride about - is helping people care about making the world better.

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

The world can get a bit ugly sometimes.

I finally realized that so much of the music world is about how much money you've got, how much you can pay to make your record successful.

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

For I desired, as Youth does, to be taken by the hand and hurled into the world.

If I'm excited by something bodily, and curious about it, I generally want to delve into it and explore it with poetry. That's the way I ordinarily watch the world around me.

Even if it's other people, like on MySpace pages, we're just as collective of enthusiasts now. That seems to be the world we're in.

Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.

People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see just about all that you can handle.

If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics

How can you think about the world without factoring in the unforseen, the fluke event?

Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe’

Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it

[Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that.

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesnt believe that, about other possibilities?

Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.

Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work.

I remember going to see Amiri Baraka. It wasn't actually too long before he died. He said, "You've got to write to change the world!" I was like, "Not me, no, no, no, no."

If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable. If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

In a world of increasing grey areas, we are becoming more and more entrenched in black and white positions.

By “empathy,” some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of those things. I'm not a monster.

I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit.

We saw when those World Trade towers came down what these terrorists will do.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

Haiti allowed us to glimpse into a future of what disaster response might look like in a hyper-connected world.

I love a small dinner party - let's say six people, max, were everybody's having the same conversation. That's my favorite thing in the world.

The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money