This World Quotes

Im off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.

Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.

JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.

Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.

I always like worlds where you could be in several different time periods.

My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world.

The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.

They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.

Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.

Shame is one of the greatest aphrodisiacs in the world, anyway, built into religion.

It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.

Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?

wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole.

Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.

Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.

The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

He's one of the biggest whingers in world football... he's a bloody eejit.

Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions.

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.

As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.

The purpose of the world is for youto be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to suffer, to create the suffering that seems to be what is needed for the awakening to happen.

Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness

The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why the world of form is sacred.

We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.

You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.

The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no image— And this is the silence of wisdom.

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

Clothes are the way you present yourself to the world; they affect the way the world feels and thinks about you; subconsciously they affect the way you feel and think about yourself.

I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the world and derive a totally different conclusion.

whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.

He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.

I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.

I have no desire to live anywhere else but New Zealand. I've had the good fortune to travel widely around the world, but New Zealand is home - and I like to be here. I'm proud to be a New Zealander.

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.