My World Quotes

All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been a struggle between my conception of myself and the world versus reality.

Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy

The world's an Inn; and I her guest.

The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch of a little world? command thyself.

The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable.

Take heed thou trust not the deceitful lap Of wanton Dalilah; the world's a trap.

False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight.

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.

The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,Moves all the labouring surges of the world.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held by a leash; you can only fly so far.

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.

I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development.

It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.

The world doesn't owe anyone a living—including veterans.

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.

I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush.

Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.

In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.

My favorite...continues to be Kevin Zraly's 'Windows on the World'.

Everyone's got unfinished business with Barcelona. They're the greatest team in the world.

There's so many kids out there and it's such a cut-throat world. I've seen a lot of my mates, you know, who are better players than me at a certain age, and they're not in football now.

I am certainly not the most talented player in the world; there's many a more talented player than me.

Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world

Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is there anything in the world lovelier than fresh warm bread and a mug of sweet golden tea?

The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.

With the Hebrew Bible, you're living in an austere world.

and I have mastered the speed and strength which is the armor of the world.

Las Vegas is the most honest fake city in the world.

This is my world. You step into my world, you will step out a loser - I guarantee it.

The beauty of a really good movie is that it's a whole world, complete in an hour and a half or two hours.

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

In your dreams you can see yourself as a prophet saving the world.

Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.

These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.

We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.

The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.