World Quotes

If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.

I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: 'Oh shoot! What are they talking about?'

War, the World's Only Hygiene

We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...

I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.

The world needs people who save lives.

That which is lacking in the present world is a profound knowledge of the nature of things.

The most interesting parts of the natural world are the edges, places where ocean meets land, meadow meets forest, timberline touches the heights.

Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

I don't wear fur and I understand their cause. I am the biggest animal lover in the world. I have four dogs and two horses, and I have rescued animals all my life.

Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve

Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.

Remember that the biggest gap in the world is between 'I should' and 'I did.'

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.

Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.

Look the world straight in the eye.

This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.

NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order.

Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

If a team lives up to its role as favorite, it will have earned the World Cup. By the way, Adidas grew by about 30 percent in Brazil even without sponsoring the national team.

It's a brave new world.

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.

I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy.

I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.

The spiritual leader will choose the hidden path of sacrificial service and approval of the Lord over the flamboyant self-advertising of the world.

In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness.

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.