World Quotes

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.

This is to the world and how god damn beautiful it is.

I was overpowered by being in the world, by other people and their lives I couldn’t lead, their jobs I couldn’t do - overpowered even by jobs I would never want or need to do.

We wanted to be led by our mission and to embed our values throughout the world.

The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.

I work every day to live up to my mother's model. She was a very proud woman. And she really prepared me to go off into the world as a proud daughter.

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?

This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness.

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

The world is governed by love,--self-love.

I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.

If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.’

Begrudging others leads to disharmony. Without harmony there can be no happiness. Therefore, let go of grudges and restore harmony. In a harmonious world, happiness is possible.

You want a valve that doesn't leak and you try everything possible to develop one. But the real world provides you with a leaky valve. You have to determine how much leakiness you can tolerate.

The only hope of transforming the world from the 'tsunami of violence' is for each of us to become the change we wish to see in the world.

The OGP is something that has brought the world community together.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

The world will continue to be hit by natural disasters and hateful mass killings, but communities bounce back stronger, so keep going.

We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.

Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction.

Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.

The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.

Everything should be done to prevent Iran, the world's most dangerous regime, from developing the world's most dangerous weapons.

There are so many things I've done that the world of boxing has witnessed. It's going to be difficult for the boxing people to pick one of my performances as the best.

[Donald] Trump would want to cosy up to him for sure, and he'd be right to do that. Which would be good for the world.

Since politics — until recently — has been a man’s world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.

We're stronger and braver TOGETHER. Do not let this world and this narcissistic culture make competitors out of the very people who are meant to be your comrades in arms.

A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will.

Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't go. The world's flat.' But he kept going. He found land.

As long as we define stress as how some person or situation is making us feel, we will have to change the world around us to find peace of mind.

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.

Do I have a message? Yes, I do. Here's my message: as scary as the world is – and it is – it is merely a ride ...

I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your f-kin' mouth.

Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.

I wanted to use some kind of name so people would know where I was from. So I took the name "bluegrass." There is not a prettier name in the whole world.

New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.

I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming out. Unless you're number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.

On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.

The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.

There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.