This World Quotes
How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do
Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.
She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.
Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.
My wish for the world would be to end violence against women. My wish for myself would be for peace of mind.
I was pretty excited to meet Cate Blanchett. She's great, she's amazing, I think she's one of the most beautiful women in the universe. And I mean the universe, not the world.
I’ve learned the most from Randy Harrison. Because of his fantastic imaginary world filled with bizarre friends. He is constantly giving us good advice.
In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
You look at what interests a person and then you formulate what their opinions are, in terms of how they see the world, and how they see love and life.
We love displays and symbols and stuff that quickly and silently tells the world who we are. Better yet, we love visual reminders of who we want to be.
Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream
I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.
The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible, and the human brain will never be threatened with unemployment.
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
I must be the only person in the world who's looking forward to going into hospital. I can't wait to get it over and done with.
Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it.
To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.
We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.
The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.
Saddam Hussein was a unique threat. And the world is better off without him in power.
The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day of November, 1914. The zone became effective Nov. 5, 1914.
The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.
It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.
Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.
It feels like getting a back massage from the Grim Reaper: one must get comfortable with the most horrifying things in the world.
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.
It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.
I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all.
The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.