This World Quotes

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in? That village, that city, that life? We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?

"Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly." "I want to be a soldier. A hero." "You'll grow out of it."

I am single for two reasons. First, I don't date girls who watch Real World because they already think they know me. Second, a lot of girls look at me as the slutty seven.

Plastic people flashing fake smiles at a pretend world.

It's always good to have a world that people don't know about - a world that hasn't yet been done. It's like treading on fresh snow. You're the first one there.

I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted.

People who are lazy may smoke pot and remain lazy. That is aging the person finding a drug to help one create the vegetable style the person wants, as the person cannot live in the real world.

His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.

It was probably nothing, but it felt like the world.

With people in the world such as 'Jamie Oliver' and [TV chef] Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals.

Every generation seems to have its members who think the world has gone to hell and a hand basket and that they need to explain a challenging world to their kids.

All over the world, belief in the supernatural has authorised the sacrifice of people to propitiate bloodthirsty gods, and the murder of witches for their malevolent powers.

The world has far too much morality.

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

But nothing really clicked for me until I gave up completely on hitting the overlap and just did what I loved, even when I thought nobody else in the world would be interested.

I have six children and I love all my kids more than anything in the world.

The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.

It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy.

When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.

History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.

I love how you can shoot a movie in a month or two or three of four, and it's this encapsulated story that you box up and ship out into the world, and what it is, is what it is.

Let the wealthier countries and corporations of the world fund an Emergency Organization.

I feel that the world is in a really dangerous place and it scares me.

Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.

Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.

I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.

The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

We just need a strong female perspective, especially in the world now...when the degrading of women has become such a popular thing.

I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.

I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away.

Our world is moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and with the advent of social media, what happens in New York now can be reported across the globe 60 seconds later.

As retail goes through a fundamental shift into the digital world, I believe Ocado's model and the high standards of customer service it provides will see it emerge as a powerful online player.

I am taking my production style more into the world of dub. I mean true dub production techniques but in house music.

I have stopped sleeping inside. A house is too small, too confining. I want the whole world, and the stars too.

The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.

Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.

I said, "If I was a Negro girl-" He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. "We can't think of changing our skin," he said. "Change the world-that's how we gotta think."

I am the world's worst diabetic.

My very best memory of Montreal was the moment inside the Olympic arena when I was waiting under the stadium and those majestic gates opened up. It was a whole other world.

Lying about anything is the cruelest thing in the world you could ever do. Be who you are. Don't try to be someone you're not. It never works.

Boston is the cream of the crop of the marathon world. It has such history that you feel such honor just being a part of it. All the other races have pacers to get you to a Boston qualifying time.

I will believe in the 500-channel world only when I see it.

When you get to see the world, it changes you. You realise that there are all kinds of people out there.

So we have to be ready, willing, and able to really transform ourselves, and each other in the world, not just say it and affirm it, "Oh, I want to change". Intention is important, but so is action.

If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.

Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose.

Maybe I'm wrong," Mom said. "Maybe the world really is coming to an end." "Should I try Fox News?" I asked. Mom shuddered. "We're not that desperate," she said.

Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females.

Figure out what you are meant to contribute to the world and make sure you contribute it