This World Quotes

I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.

Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.

...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

I feel very accomplished. It makes me feel great to know that I am impacting lives and of service to the world.

I felt bad for that world that we have given a generation of kids.

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

No matter what happens, there is always the business of the world to attend to.

There is no way to create wealth without ideas. Most new ideas are created by newcomers. So anyone who thinks the world is safe for incumbents is dead wrong.

That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.

I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn't want to sully myself with their weakness anymore.

I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.

Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is Apple, it's why Walt Disney built Disney World and it's why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.

The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.

The reflected world is the conquest of calm.

He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

The Prince of Calcutta. Two of his special qualities are his intelligence and articulation, both of which have helped him immensely in the world of contemporary cricket.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.

The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

It's way beyond ironic that a place called the Holy Land is the location of the fiercest, most deeply felt hatred in the world. And it makes for wonderful theater.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn't.

America's freedom is the example to which the world expires.

Great nations of the world are moving toward democracy.

Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.

The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.

All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

I'm honest. It's the world that's awful.

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world.

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

The United States Navy carries the might and the mission of America to the farthest parts of the world.

Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire.

The desire for order is the only order in the world.

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

This impure world that we presently experience exists only in relation to our impure mind.

It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

To militant Islamists, the expulsion of the Soviets was just the prelude to purging the entire Islamic world of infidels.

I always tell people you can take the thugest thug in the world, and if you put a suit on him, he'll act different, trust me.

Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.

The world has forgotten, in its concern with Left and Right, that there is an Above and Below.