This World Quotes

I think the way the world has evolved, it's maybe caught up to me. It makes more sense and it makes it click on a larger scale.

There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

The world would be a much nicer place if people only used guns on themselves.

If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his own.

We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard.

Awareness of the sacred in life is what holds our world together, and the lack of awareness of the sacred is what is tearing it apart.

If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more fun to give, more interactive and imaginative.

Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

To be an ally is a formal military alliance. And we have a formal military alliance in NATO. But we are partners with other countries all across the world. And they're - they will be a partner.

I love football. I really love football, As far as I'm concerned, it's the second best thing in the world.

[My work as a photographer is a] mission to document endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving.

The uneven distribution of wealth in the world is due to the uneven distribution of capitalism.

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.

Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.

It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it

I'm not saying running could solve all of the world's problems, but I think it would be a good start.

When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.

I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.

We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America's gluttony on fossil fuel.

My soul is of more value than ten thousand worlds.

My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.

I will stop the motor of the world.

You’re entering a world of pain.

Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.

The world went mad and used us as an excuse.

I think putting the United States down across the world is not something that a responsible person does.

The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.

The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers.

Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.