My World Quotes

Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it's getting worse.

I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it.

Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.

Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.

Necessity, thou mother of the world!

The discussion of any subject is a right that you have brought into the world with your heart and tongue. Resign your heart's blood before you part with this inestimable privilege of man.

Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle Such lamps within the dome of this dim world That the pale name of priest might shrink and dwindle Into the Hell from which it first was furled.

O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb

I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact.

The most beautiful man in the world says everything with his eyes, and the rest with his hands and mouth.

We live in a world that needs entertainment. And that entertainment has to be provided by men who sweat and bleed.

The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.

It's like coming back to the womb. I'm coming back to my mum and it's wonderful to see her. It's the best space in the world. If it wasn't for this place I don't know what I'd have done with my life.

Tennis is seen all around the world; if I am home or anywhere in the country, United States, people will stare.

The world will be solved by millions of small things.

The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.

If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.

In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.

I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.

Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world.

Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.

In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts.

There are two very different types of hope in this world. One is hoping for something, and the other is hoping in Someone.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight.

This condition of uncertainty and unrest in the Roman Empire might explain why at Plotinus' philosophy encourages us to sort of flee from the physical world and towards the world of ideas.

The world around you is some kind of distraction at best, and evil at worst, and you should be turning away from it.

Plotinus thought that the entire world has a single soul. He also thought that each animal and plant and of course human, has an individual soul.

This is in a way the most important thing about soul is that it's a kind of principle which mediates between the universal intellect and the material world.

I think the most inspiring thing that Americans can do for the rest of the world is struggle against the evils in our own society.

Help cure the world of the faith virus.

I think the antidote to any symptom borne of fear and scarcity is love. Compassion, understanding, respect, honor: all the things we need to help the world heal begin there.

I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing--working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world were like that!

What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?

Knowledge has become the key resource of the world economy.

I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy.

Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion.

The country (England) which was called a nation of pirates in the years around 1600 would eventually become the pirates' greatest scourge, not just in English waters but throughout the world.

Retailers are treating everyone the same way who walks in their stores and this doesn't make sense in the world we live in where all customers are not equal.

It's nice when you can tell stories that brush up against the world we live in.

In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else's dream anymore because you can go off and make your own.

Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.

I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions.

A lot of leading countries in the world, including the United States and Russia, have to take their responsibilities much more seriously to ensure we are back on the road to peace and stability.

In an ideal world the script is written lean and tight and therefore there are no scenes left on the cuttring room floor and therefore no extended edition.

Every profession has its own culture, but the police look at the world differently to everybody else. I call it a 'healthy culture of suspicion'.