World Quotes

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

The person who sows a single beautiful thought in the mind of another, renders the world a greater service than that rendered by all the faultfinders combined.

In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

What we are talking about is extended world war...People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to move.

In every generation, the world is changed by a few people, who stand for something, do not fear unpopularity and dare to make a difference.

Potholes and bumps? Welcome to the world. Every road gas them. They're there to be navigated, avoided, driven over, or through to the other side. Don't keep driving into the pothole.

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

I am particularly interested in the way that the everyday realities of the world around us change these relations.

The Lord said that He was giving us a new president who is better than we deserve. He represents a reprieve from a New World Order that the Church is not prepared to face at this time.

When the world looks at America, what it sees is an Israeli colony.

The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer.

The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world.

Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

When a man loves a woman, can't keep his mind on nothing else. He'd trade the world for the good thing he's found.

You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.

Don’t accept the world as it is. Dream of what the world could be - and then help make it happen.

The important thing is to pull yourself up by your own hair to turn yourself inside out and see the whole world with fresh eyes.

We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.

I wasn't even prepared to be an actress. I was 17 when I came out of high school, and suddenly became Miss World and then I became an actress.

New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.

What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

It does not cost the world to save the planet.

There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .

Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.

Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

Think... of the world you carry within you.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

If you would truly bring peace to the world, identify with that place within you where you are Peace.

The Jews are the conscience of the world. They are the father figures, stern, critical, and forbidding.

We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter.

I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination.

If I never do another thing, I've met the good sweet people of the world.

I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.

I have used cannabis all over the world.

The world is desperately in need of people who will break themselves open and pour themselves out for the reconciliation of all things- that's what the world needs.

The Senate is an unknowing world

The gift of the Holy Ghost, given to us when we are confirmed, gives us the ability to discern the difference between the giving ways of the kingdom of God and the taking practices of the world.

Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.