This World Quotes
I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.
A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.
Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.
weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.
We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.
Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.
The last time I was this scared, I peed myself." "The last time I was this scared," Radar says, "I actually had to face a Dark Lord in order to make the world safe for wizards.
I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.
I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance.
As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.
Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the evil and ungentle passions looked out, hideous and hateful.
Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world.
Our dad made everything competitive for me and brother. It always was a world championship, a national championship, Big 10 championship. It was always at stake in everything we did.
This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.
I do love genres, but I love finding new ways into the genre, or making that world fresh again.
The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams and reams of research and complexity.
The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others will.
One wonders sometimes, looking at the world, how it's dealing with itself. There are days when you wake up and you feel very optimistic and there are days when you feel pessimistic.
I wanted to work with those boys (producers Andy and Larry Wachowski) because they're so eccentric and peculiar. Larry, of course, is halfway towards being a woman now. It's a crazy world.
Any real accomplishment in the world reflects the efforts of a lot of people. . . . For an individual to claim personal responsibility was the height of arrogance.
Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.
There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the Western powers. It doesn't work. It needs to break up into three parts.
Call the world if you please "the vale of soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world.
What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.
No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.
The world is too brutal for me-I am glad there is such a thing as the grave-I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.
You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.
The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.
Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.
In a world where for pedagogic and other purposes a very large number of economists is required, an arrangement which discourages many of them from
Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.
In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.
While his removal will not necessarily bring an immediate end to terrorist activity, I have absolutely no doubt that the world is a safer place without Osama Bin Laden.
Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, including New Zealanders, in several different parts of the world.
I'm happy to announce to the world that I'm a crier. It doesn't take a lot for me to cry at stuff.
At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to bring the assets-to-debt ratio back in touch with reality.
The world is awash in more debt than there is money enough in the world to liquidate it.
The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.