World Quotes

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

I think that the Brazilian football is one of the best in the world. It still is and still struggles for this. We have talented players that can take Brazil to the top.

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.

There are but two truths in the world - the Bible and Greek architecture.

Jobs that require a suit upset me. They displease me much, as our world is rife with such superficial conformity.

The world needs change, change needs an activity. It has to be planted by a thought.

I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other.

Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.

The kiss became the narrowed center of the still point of the turning world, so that even the park was turning in comparison to the still peace at their lips.

The scariest thing in the world is losing your mask.

Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.

When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally.

Sketching on a regular basis requires you to pay close attention to the visual world around you. With practice, you begin to see things you never noticed before.

In England, Rooney is a world-class footballer in the world.

I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.

If we want to change things, we must first change ourselves. If we want to play - if we want to change the world - we must first show up on the field to score.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.

I love you because all the loves in the world are like different rivers flowing into the same lake where they meet and are transformed into a single love that becomes rain and blesses the earth.

I hope at least that the following will endure: my trust in the people, and my faith in men and women, and in the creation of a world in which it will be easier to love

If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve significance as human beings.

The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.

There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.

I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.

Inspiration is a message-in-a-bo ttle from the distant shore, a window into the other world, a tap of the muse's finger, the grace of the gods. It comes when you least expect it.

Everyone can make a real difference. Your voice is needed in a global movement that can change their world.

The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.

It is by God’s mercy that we are saved. May we never tire of spreading this joyful message to the world.

To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.

If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should know so little about them.

If we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to turn a warm heart to the world.

If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby invests with a deeper reality.

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.

I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that people who are engaged with the world do all the time

Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself.

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek - Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong And dare not speak!

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.