This World Quotes

God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company

The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.

I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement

Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible of yourself and your world?

Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.

The world is very different today than it was in 1968.

The world obviously needs to change ... if we can't protect our innocent women and children, then we have a serious problem.

Maybe if audiences all over the world would check out animation from other countries, filmmakers would be more sophisticated and experimental.

There is no need for nuclear. The world can be powered by wind, water and sun alone.

In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world.

Berlin definitely has one of the most vibrant of the startup scenes that I have seen. Not really just across Europe, but across the whole world in terms of cities. It's an interesting dynamic.

AI systems will enable doctors to diagnose diseases and treat people better, so blocking that progress is probably one of the worst things you can do for making the world better.

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

Berlin is one of my favorite cities in the world. I feel like the energy is very youthful. It has such an important history, including its recent history of unification.

The world isn't set up equally, and the first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined.

When I moved to New York, I felt very strong emotionally and mentally. Aside from touring, I'd spent a couple of years alone and because of that, I was able to go out in the world again.

He's most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running.

I can promise you that the world is a factory. The sun stirs it, the humans rule it. And I remain. I carry them away.- spoken by death

Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.

I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I'd seen at a distance for years.

There isn't an agony in the world more powerful than tenderness

People have this idea that nature dictates a sort of 1950s sitcom version of what males and females are like. That is just not the case in the insect world.

I think this conflict [against terrorism] is going to require a suspension of freedom and rights unlike anything we have ever seen, at least since World War II.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

We have a black President in the United States. I think the world has matured. It's no longer about colour, but the person in the skin.

Empathy allows us to re-perceive our world in a new way and move forward.

We recognize that real educational reform is essential if today's and tomorrow's children are to live in a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world.

The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating?

The media have substituted themselves for the older world.

Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions.

As an accountant by trade, my work for blue chip companies took me all over the world.

You are free only when you care for nobody in the world. But if you stop caring, life isn't worth living.

Make a plan to change the world. For one night, don't disbelieve that you can.

the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world.

In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology.

Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. -James Oliver 'Tomorrow I will live,' the fool does say; tomorrow itself is late; the wise live yesterday.

The satirist isn't just looking at things ironically but militantly - he wants to change them, and intends to have an effect on the world.

America still is the center of the world, and what happens in the American economy matters everywhere.

It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?

One who truly meets the world goes out also to God.

To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty.

It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.

This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.