World Quotes

Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

The night was full of horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts.

The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.

When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking.

If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically.

You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one of the few really decent ladies around.

I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

I think the world would be much better if you always started the morning by calling the person you dreamt of during the night.

I like independence, I like creating my own world, not being in a system. There are more possibilities, I think.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the worlds.

I unfortunately still crave chicken McNuggets and bacon, which is the meat candy of the world.

Think of the world as a loving place that is designed to give you everything that you need.

Whenever you're unhappy, your emotions are telling you that the people or things around you are not conforming to your vision of the world, or the way you think things should be.

The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.

The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before we can discover it in our environment

Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.

If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.

To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.

Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.

No One in the Entire World is as Precious as You are.

Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness

You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance

This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.

We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance.

The world’s biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldn’t have food shortages.

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us

If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world.

To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.

The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.

Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?

Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didnt.

You made my world stand still, and in that stillness, there was a freedom I never felt before.

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.

The Orange Revolution was a powerful example of democracy around the world. The people of Ukraine are continuing to shape their own future.

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.