This World Quotes

We need to do a better job of understanding what the world is.

The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.

Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further

The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as a form of its political organization.

The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption.

The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.

She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.

Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain's first woman Prime Minister is honour enough for me.

In the end, it's always a single person who makes change. But I do think we should try to send artists out into the world and not have them all stick together in the big cities.

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

Im very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.

It is a big world that we live in, and people have a choice to love who they love.

The world is a never-ending cross-reference.

Dogs in America get more affection than women in most Third World countries.

No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.

… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.

I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.

When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.

The present convergence of crises - in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more - is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.

I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.

If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?

The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.

Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world. Morning arrives and that's it. Sunlight darkens the earth.

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

If you want to change the world, make something beautiful.

We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.

In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think to a time when measures that are not even dreamt of now will become necessary.

My favorite place in the world is this store called My Sister's Closet in Arizona and it's the greatest secondhand shop in the world.

Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.

We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.

I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

When you get a little older, you think, I'd like to make a little money and stick it away or buy a place - or win the world championship.

To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.

When skateboarding hit, I wanted to be best skateboarder in the world, and I fought for it, there was nothing that was going to get in my way.

In a world where I have to hide my heart and what I believe in. But somehow I will show the world what's inside.

I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography

If Jesus isn't enough for the church, why would he be enough for the world?

No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

If you truly want to make an impact on the world, you can and you will.

I KNOW THAT I CAN'T SOLVE ALL THE MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGES IN THE WORLD BY MYSELF. I NEED AND WANT OTHERS TO JOIN ME.

All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.

There are 7 billion people in the world, and 5.1 billion of them have a cell phone, and 4 billion have a toothbrush.