My World Quotes

The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks.

Your ability to work with people directly affects your ability to get work done in the world.

I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that my books are like ghosts that will inhabit this future.

Everything changes. This is the key to feeling powerful, but also to being creative in the world.

If you have millions and millions of dollars, you're living in a totally different world. You don't feel it anymore and you've got to feel it.

My greatest wish is that a certain way of looking at the world, a way I show in all of my books, gets into my readers' heads, and slowly alters their perception.

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.

One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.

Today and over the foreseeable future,traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is doubtful that it can never recover.

Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left.

Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.

Healing is to remind us we are not the experiences of the world.

Nothing in the world can make you happy; everything in the world can encourage you to be happy.

Your happiness is your gift to the world.

The message has to go to the streets, it's imperative that we reach those who may not get to a church. We receive their questions, it's important that the world asks questions.

Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world.

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.

If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not. -Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)

Maybe there would be a Tinker city someday, too. They would buy up all of the colored dye, and everyone else in the world would ave to wear brown.' -Mat

To approach the badlands is to find a gap in the known and expected world.

For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.

My painting Two Worlds actually changed the way people see the world.

...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.

If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much.

And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes Of youth, in manhood's more imposing cares.

A universal beauty clothes the world, And one heart seems to beat for all mankind!

The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.

The world community simply should not support such extreme measures when there are so many other pressing issues at hand. The optimal response to greenhouse gases is to start modestly.

Save the children of the World from their acidic lifestyles and diets and their acidic parents who are feeding them.

Vacation: When you spend thousands of dollars to see what rain looks like in different parts of the world.

THe world now has so many problems that if Moses had come down from Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd carry would be aspirin.

New York seems very very foreign to me, like more foreign than almost anywhere in America, and almost anywhere in the world, I find it like one of the most overwhelming places.

When the whole world is watch­ing you, they cre­ate sto­ries and give you labels that have noth­ing to do with you. It's almost impos­si­ble for you not to explode!

I like being a part of David Cronenberg’s world, I feel very at home there

I'd hasten to say that the prejudice in Dust City isn't completely analogous to racism in the real world.

My only crime was being a man and living in the world of men, and you don't have to do special penance for that. The crime and the penance, in that case, coincide perfectly. They are identical.

[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time.

What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.

Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the holocaust The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments.

Even the most worthless thing in the world can be beautiful, it just takes the right touch