This World Quotes

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.

If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.

The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.

A clear and focused mind will last a lifetime. Getting your mind in shape is nothing less than the key to sustainable success in the world.

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world.

If you want to inspire the world, first inspire yourself.

The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the most satisfying thing in all the world.

Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.

It is not preaching any rules the world wants, but love and action.

Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.

Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's population.

I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.

When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world.

In the world of tomorrow, the new man will 'think' the place he wants to go, then his mind will take him there.

Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.

The U.S. should come out openly and say to the world, "We are the only imperial power, and we're going to rule you, and if you don't like it you can lump it."

My favorite place in the whole world is Nashville. Because it's my home, it's Music City. It's like, everybody there is so artistic and so creative, and nice! Everybody's really friendly.

Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

If world leaders decide to [meet the Millennium Development Goals], I think it can be done by 2015...The question is, is there a political will to make this investment?

I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

People who focus on what they can't control are usually depressed, frustrated, angry, overwhelmed and lost. Sure, there's no way to look at the world and say it's fair, even or just.

...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.

I don't believe [Africa] is ready to shift - and she needs to shift. So she needs to get the technology and she can only get that technology from the developed world.

All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.

The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.

What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy out of the strongest possible natural positions.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

The only thing that really matters is spreading love and light and acceptance and unity throughout the entire world in any way that you possibly can.

Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.

I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

I want the world to know that everybody deserves a second chance.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.