This World Quotes

I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.

The resistance to black-and-white is huge, in the way that you have to sell the film. It's difficult to distribute around the world.

The returns we read about in the industry sales literature vastly diminish when we move from the theoretical world of market indexes to the real world of actually investing.

Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along.... It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and the animal world begins.

I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.

The known unseen within becomes structural in what is seen: a being functioning as a self, in person, in this world.

The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.

The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.

Foreign aid is a method by which the United States maintains a position of influence and control around the world

We are all proud of is World War II where we went in, we were decisive, we came to the conclusion that freedom prevailed, and we were heroes.

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

I understand that there are a lot of things you cannot control in this world.

I'm not sure if that answers the question and I have absolutely no problem with any major world religion on Earth.

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.

I don't think I'm craving any more fame. But success and being recognized for making great work all around the world, I think it's a great thing.

In today's world, new infections and diseases can spread across the country and even across the world in a matter of days, or even hours, making early detection critical.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.

The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

Changing the world, one exclamation point at a time.

There are realities about what it is to be a woman in this world that are born from social convention. No matter how far away you are from civilization, you can't fully get away from that.

The whole world turned into an all-you-can-eat buffet.

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.

The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.

As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.

Pranking is ultimately turning the world upside down. It's in good fun.

There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.

Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.

I'm not a "conservative" because I see precious little left in this world worth conserving. Playing defense, it seems to me, can only forestall an inevitable slide into tyranny.

Don't we want to escape our real world and go into something larger than that, simpler than that, more beautiful or darker?

Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race.

The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.

There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.

It's fun to toy around with press stuff a little bit, because in many ways it's not a real world.

I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.

In any symmetrical war in today's world, it is necessary to have regional support.

Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.

As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well.

I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.

I feel like we as human beings are trampling all over the natural world, but at the same time, we are totally in its power.

To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel.

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the old world.