This World Quotes

I'm not sure what [my latest works are] about but I'm convinced they're the best things I've done and I'm going to the world's best museums with them.

Artists of the world arise - it's time to dump your dealers.

There's too much negativity in the world. Staying positive is a better investment.

I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they’re humble.

Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this optimal world rather than some other.

The working-class folks and the poor, and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the fanfare. There is a lot to learn from them.

It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!

What if I have it all upside down? What if I'm the one who knows nothing of God, and the people in the world are actually interceding on my behalf with their ordinary daily struggles

It means the world to me to represent the Hispanic community.

Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they get away with that one?'

I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.

We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world.

Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.

The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated.

What you believe to be the truth directly determines your attitude towards yourself and the world, the words you say and the actions you take.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.

The water crumbles on it's way down as my hands and feet push me forward. The world is lightening, taking shape, and turning to color. It feels like it's being painted around me.

She was a Jew feeder without a question in the world on that man's first night in Molching. She was an arm reacher, deep into a mattress, to deliver a sketchbook to a teenage girl. (84.25)

Let me tell you, Barack Obama is the most down dude in the world, but he's so smart so articulate, such an amazing speaker such a passionate man. He's humble.

I sound like Jesse Jackson or Martin Luther King, but I honestly feel like the world is mature enough. And, for me, I just want to do good roles.

The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.

Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

During the times we think we’re being “unproductive,” the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.

I think the imagination helps us move out of the purely oppositional mentality and see the world in a richer and more variegated way.

The world I'm interested in is the one where things are not named.

I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

A brand is an emotional construct. It helps you to project an image to the world which you'd like to own.

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.

When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."

Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.

A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.

Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.

The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in a minority.

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."

If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over.