This World Quotes
Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.
No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.
Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?
As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.
I do not know what happened with your parents or why they did what they did. But in all the world, I could have wished for no daughter but you.
If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be over-thrown with it, what advantage will be gained?
I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models.
I just don't see this old idea of the Red peril, itching to take over the world. I think you can explain a lot of the Soviets' moves as stemming from a basic sense of insecurity.
The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.
Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.
And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.
The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.
Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.
If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist except he was a Realist.
Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you've got more carbon dioxide.
We need a strong and effective State Department. We can't conduct American affairs in the world without it.
I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.
Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.
I've only been three years in the industry - but I would say from my observations, my personal opinions, that the world in Hollywood and all the big movies has been built up as just white.
It is possible, you know, to drift off to an unknown world and find happiness there. Maybe even more happiness than you've ever known before.
There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.
Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.
U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.
In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.
Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.
The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.
There is an international treaty framework for this. It's the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Most countries in the world are members of the treaty.
If your desire is to be successful or to make a positive impact on your world, you need to become a person of influence.
I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.
Three reasons problems are inevitable; first, we live in a world of growing complexity and diversity; second, we interact with people; and third, we cannot control all the situation we face.
If you treat every person you meet as if he or she were the most important person in the world, you'll communicate that he or she is somebody - to you.
Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on the their world.
You go see 'Timothy Green,' and tell me if it doesn't rock your world. I loved it. I loved every frame of it.
A private company can't compete against the resources of the second largest economy in the world.
We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.
