This World Quotes

Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.

I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.

A word refers to something in the real world and so, in a way, does a photo. It's not the thing itself, but it's a kind of suggestion of where you might look for that thing.

In our instant pudding world, everything is sweet, smooth, very convenient and fast. There are lots of assorted flavors, but they're all artificial.

How shocking must thy summons be, O death, to him that is at ease in his possessions! who, counting on long years of pleasure here, is quite unfurnished for the world to come.

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.

The ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world that the ancestors made.

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.

What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions.

I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me.

Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.

God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her.

O world, as God has made it! All is beauty.

In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.

We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom.

In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages.

Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world.

In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now.

Earth being so good, would heaven seem best?

It’s time to move the debate past the dogmatic view that carbon dioxide is evil and toward a world view that accepts the need for energy that is cheap, abundant, and reliable.

'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy!

I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world

The world is what it is and won't be bargained with.

Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.

Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end.

By choosing to be in His kingdom, we separate—not isolate—ourselves from the world.

[Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience would have seen at least one of his plays.

American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world.

Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the poverty there is a kind of justice and in some countries a democracy.

President Bush will come here and there will be new "friends" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who "liberated" them.

Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.

I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.

The Genius Pattern = Thy will be done with my talents with my circles of influence with the opportunities that are laid out in front of me to bless the world.

Art is a path on which we honour our world.

There's no safer investment in the world than in the United States.

We do not sponsor any form of terrorism anywhere in the world. Never have, never will

The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world.

The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.

There is a pressing need to integrate the study of international economics with the study of international politics to deepen our comprehension of the forces at work in the world.

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.

He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.

In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath.

Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

Hope is the consolation of the world.