World Quotes

Mothers are the pivot on which the family spins, Mothers are the pivot on which the world spins.

There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.

For me, teaching is about weaving a web of connectedness between myself, my students, the subject I'm teaching, and the larger world.

I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.

I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.

Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.

America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself.

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.

In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we've undertaken in the last century.

I think the world is really small today, and fashion, from that end of it, it's instantaneous everywhere.

There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some sort of drone instrument, and there's always percussion.

Don't think about what you've left behind... everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.

I don't recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn't revolve around them.

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

You've got to believe you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out.

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

It used to be widely held that evil was incompatible with the existence of God: that no possible world contained both God and evil. So far as I am able tell, this thesis is no longer defended

In a world characterized by loneliness and despair, we can reach out in love to those around us. Or, as St. Francis once said, we can "preach the gospel all the time; if necessary, use words."

Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and world of hunger in vengeance will always remember.

Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession.

Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.

The photographs of one dead terrorist mastermind carry no real news or information about the nature or horror of war. They just create sensation instead of deeper understanding.

The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.

I want to interview the most important people in the world and have everyone in America the next day going, 'Did you see that?'

It's important to give kids an opportunity to see what the world is about, and music is a fantastic friend.

And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o'er.

I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the future.

The new Pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.

Let's return to our first love, in order to receive the fire which Jesus has kindled in the world and to bring that fire to all people, to the very ends of the earth.

Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together.

Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.

True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.

I am the worlds laziest writer.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.

There are always going to be jerks in the world . . . [but] there are more good people on this earth than bad people, and the good people watch out for each other and take care of each other.

I have been all men known to history, Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil, and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky.

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

You have given me Your love, filling the world with Your gifts.