This World Quotes

Love is the world's river of life

The world is God's workshop for making men in.

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.

I have all over the country and all over the world. It is an honor for me to meet the fans, a blessing.

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own

This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.

The seeing have the world in common.

Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.

Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

The house of Lords must be the only institution in the world which is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of most of its members.

World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

And the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.

Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.

It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.

Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring.

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary?

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

We are not a nation, so much as a world; for unless we claim all the world for our sire, like Melchisedec, we are without father or mother.

I could...see in Emerson...that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.

Were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged.

Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.

I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.

The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.

I know that the Bible has been a central influence in [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] lives - but in a very different way. In truth, you inhabit very different Biblical worlds.

Both of you [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] are giants, dare I say nephilim [giants; see Genesis 6:4; Numbers 13:33], in your world.

Elie Wiesel has for years served as the moral compass of the civilized world. For many of us, including me, he has defined the Holocaust.

Egypt is coming back - is becoming - is going to become, you know, a center of excellence for the region and maybe for the rest of the world.

I am not the world's most confident person.

So truth created the ultimate lie. Was this what the world was like for wizards? This thorny, gray tangle where right and wrong were so mixed there was no telling them apart?

I will never say a bad word about 'One Tree Hill'. The entire shape of my world changed because of that show, so I'll always be very affectionate toward it.

I was often asked how one could even make sense of this. Isn't the category of knowledge something that we project upon the world, rather than something that we discover in it?

Like every writer, I'm drawn by unlikely juxtapositions, precisely-dated and once-only collisions between people from different worlds.

No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

There is so much else in the world that is more interesting [ than monarchy].

The whole white world is ours.

We are these people, wistful, ironical, wilful, who have no part in new-world reconstruction, in the confederacy of labour.

What all women have in common is that they share most of the unpaid work of the world.

it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which poverty is a women's problem is recognized.

I'm not the biggest star in the world, but I do have a platform, and if I can use that platform to help somebody else, why wouldn't I?