This World Quotes

Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it.

I haven't left a mark on the world, but is that so bad? Considering how deeply the world has marked me?

Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

The world is in trouble. Many have prayed. God sent help. God sent you.

The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.

...the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue - it's been happening every day for a long time.

Nature with her wonders blinds and binds one still. There is no escape. I love her utterly through all time and times. All over the world towns to me are prison; green fields are home.

If Jesus didn't rise from the dead, an even greater miracle happened: 12 relatively uneducated guys changed the world and were martyred to protect a lie.

You cant not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.

When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

If Facebook were a country, it would be the 8th most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan.

If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world.

I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal.

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.

We are here for the world, not for our comfort only.

I just try to play make-believe and pretend the world is magical and awesome as much as possible.

Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.

The great unthankfulness, contempt of God's word, and wilfulness of the world, make me fear that the divine light will soon cease to shine on man, for God's word has ever had its certain course.

We must not regard what or how the world esteems us, so we have the Word pure, and are certain of our doctrine.

Unarmed love is the most powerful force in all the world.

Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day

God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us.

I think Ashley Young is world class, Id put him in a bracket with Lionel Messi and Ronaldo

I am number one in the world, so I have the right to be arrogant

Change the conversation of the world by dwelling on what's gone right.

I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.

The world is: fun, and familiar, and healthful, and unbelievably refreshing, and lovely. And it is the theater of the spiritual; it is the multiform utterly obedient to a mystery.

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

What is the English for 'Refreshing towelette'?

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

In conversation, everyone sits in confident judgment on the world.

The world needs an enema.

I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

In the past stories have been what tethers us to the world and they've made us who we are.

A lot of people in the religious world believe that by secularizing, or viewing the changes as secular, such as dropping the beard and changing my appearance, they consider this to be a fall.

The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.

Year's end, all corners of this floating world, swept.

Humor does depend on surprise, and the things that people remember as the funniest things in the world, you look at later and you go, "What? What was that all about?"

I once knew a girl who didn't know where anywhere was in the world. Not a clue. I asked her if she knew where Africa was and she answered, 'Is it the orange one on a map?'

Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.

The best band in the world is Queen, definitely.

Not letting the world destroy you. That’s a daily battle.

People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.

The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.