This World Quotes

Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.

And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart!

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

I realize that books are not the entire world, even if they sometimes seem to contain it. But I need the stupid things.

I think Beijing deserves the Olympics in order to be with all the rest of the world recognized.

Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body.

No mass appeal. Ergo no profit. Ergo no use. The current World Credo.

Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

I'm in a contented, loving relationship, but that doesn't mean I'm not struggling with other things that are going on around me in the world.

I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do.

All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.

There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa)

All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.

Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.

I get to do all these really nice, little culty things. It seems to be the world that keeps inviting me back.

But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.

Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously.

The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented sound in the world.

I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.

Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.

You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.

Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!

The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.

The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.

I always considered myself the world's worst actress.

World don't need chiefs. We need engaged, talented leaders.

You need to think about the system that you live in and the comforts that you have. But the comforts that you have that are causing the discomforts of a massive amount of people around the world.

The world brought me to my knees, what have you brung you?

My immediate family was always very supportive. It was my own fear of the rest of the world not accepting me, the rest of our society not accepting my wish to be an actor.

There have always been a large class of thinkers who deny that the world makes any progress. They say we move in a circle; that evils are never conquered, but only change their forms.

My father was very much a child of the counterculture movement and was drawn to the idea of alleviating poverty in the developing world, helping farmers diversify their crops and stuff like that.

Of course, there are a lot of things I'm angry about in the world.

I'm a really restless person; I'm tired of the way I sounded or looked yesterday. So it's hard to hang onto this image of me as this young Swedish female in this world.

I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.

but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.

You know there is no one in the world I would rather sleep with than Yuki.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

Control of space means control of the world.

No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.

The truth for me is that I've been doing independent film since the get-go, so that's a big passion of mine, but the big ones are really fun, too. I like my world to be eclectic.

The worst program in the world, if you believe in it 100%, is better than a great program that you don't believe in.

It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.

I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.

Your goal is to make a better world through the work you do. It's not always possible, and you have to earn a living.

I learned I could be miserable anywhere in the world. I learned I really was an American.

Now that I am conscious of the world of chronic pain, when I see somebody walking down the street who's having trouble, I feel a sadness for them. I notice.