World Quotes

We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

I still regard myself as an amateur today and I hope that's what I'll stay until the end of my life. Because I'm forever a beginner who discovers the world again and again.

Art would be useless if the world were perfect.

The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

If there were no cherry blossoms in this world How much more tranquil our hearts would be in spring.

I’m convinced that a world in which girls are educated is a safer, more stable, more prosperous place.

We want our children to live in an America...that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what I put out into the world, the footsteps I leave behind.

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.

The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.

The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.

Creating a strong business and building a better world are not conflicting goals - they are both essential ingredients for long-term success

The Church at its worst is still better than the world at its best!

The world needs banking but it does not need banks.

All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.

All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong.

I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.

To invent something you have to be removed from the world. In order to have liberty to imagine something better, you need to step outside for a while.

Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.

The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other...

A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were thinking of millions and the Hindus billions.

The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.

Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.

My life has changed in almost every way but I couldn’t be more grateful. I couldn’t be happier - I feel like the luckiest guy in the world.

Between the worlds of men and make believe I can be found.

When we focus on others, our world expands.

...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.

I have the urge to still be part of the world, the universe, of life. Through music I have the feeling that I come a little closer to that.

The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.

The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people.