This World Quotes

My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.

As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.

The world can teach leadership skills but only Jesus can teach you a leaders heart.

How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future.

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world.

The artist works by locating the world in himself

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US... But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.

The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

So much of this world is based on illusion, temporaries, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real.

The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace

But often times, I feel like I'm so blessed, it's not fair. That what I'm doing is not contributing to the good of the world.

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.

In life, if one wants seriously to understand how the world works, he must die at least once.

The traditional DJ world isn't a world that I come from.

I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one.

Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

You can have all the talent in the world, but if the pumper's not there, it doesn't matter.

We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.

Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there was no stopping me.

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age.

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

I could quite happily just make music because it conjures up a whole visual world for me in my mind.

Patience! Patience! Patience is the invention of dullards and sluggards. In a well-regulated world there should be no need of such a thing as patience.

Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human.

Rules and regulations, who needs them. Open up the door, we can change the world.

I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.

The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.

In our world, all puns are beautiful and they are the highest form of comedy.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.

The world needs all the help you can give by way of cheerful, optimistic, inspiring thought and personal example.

You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.

Even though I really admire what Beyonce does, and she's probably got one of the best live shows in the world - honestly! - that's so not my style.

This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.

The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens.

The world's a stage where God's omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love, and providence Do act the parts.

The word is the Guru, The Guru is the Word, For all nectar is enshrined in the world Blessed is the word which reveal the Lord's name But more is the one who knows by the Guru's grace.

The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.

You're always tellin' me to go out more, Go ahead, get out and see the world, But then I think, why should I? I'd rather stay home and cry.