Top 100 In A World Of Quotes
#1. Even when they're not stoned, adolescents live in a world of ideation of their own making and follow trains of thought to extreme conclusions, despite overwhelming evidence that they're just plain wrong
Marc Lewis
#2. I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
#3. In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.
Pete Seeger
#4. The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
Richard M. Nixon
#6. One constant in a world of variables - a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables. and all the things he takes down with him there, where the easement runs along the back fence.
Bruce Dawe
#7. Even though he's asleep, he somehow still looks as if he's in a world of pain.
Colleen Hoover
#8. It has always surprised me that in a world of relations as hard as that of the United States, cordiality constantly springs out like water from an unstanchable fountain.
Octavio Paz
#9. The egoist feels lonely, surrounded by threatening and alien events; all his desires are sunk in his own concerns. A kind person lives in a world of beneficent events, whose goodness matches his own. - ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Leo Tolstoy
#10. It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare Pavese
#11. In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.
Gary Hamel
#12. We're not in a world of information overload, we're in a world of filter failure.
Michael Lazerow
#13. But should not atheists have an equal obligation to explain the origin of pleasure in a world of randomness and meaninglessness?
Philip Yancey
#14. Always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives
Nancy Mitford
#15. Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.
Thomas P. Campbell
#16. We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.
Javier Bardem
#17. In a world of differing opinions, mentally unstable people and complete psychopaths, it was the type of simplistic notion that some people wouldn't want to follow or ignorance would just simply not allow them to understand.
S.A. Tawks
#18. Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?
John Taylor Gatto
#19. The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
#20. He moved in a world of chaos of self, fearful and astonished to be here, right here, alive in a pine-paneled bedroom.
Michael Cunningham
#21. I live in a world of fantasy, so keep your reality away from me. I see what I want, I want what I see and that is all okay with me.
Itzah C. Kret
#22. In a world of rapid change, we each need to garner as much useful information as possible, sort through it in a way that meets our unique circumstances, calibrate it with what we already know, and re-circulate it with others who share our goals.
Marcia Conner
#23. But history has been adapted here, re-spun to tell Jan's tale: the story of a boy caught up in a world of change and opportunity, trickery and wonder. A story inspired by a city and its legends.
Joanne Owen
#25. When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#26. You often appear lost in a world of your own making. It is supremely appealing to men to see a woman content with herself. We long to slip inside her and join her.
Sylvia Day
#27. What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
Wislawa Szymborska
#28. By and large, the world wants to move away from the nuclear era. The question is how fast and how far. In a world of sovereign nation-states, I can't rationalize any number above zero. If it's more than zero, you have to acknowledge every nation has the right to have them.
George Lee Butler
#29. You have learned that it is impossible to divide things neatly, and that the second you begin to define something, you limit it. There is no such thing as "cut and dried" in a world of broken humanity. Gray bleeds into gray bleeds into gray, no matter how you slice it.
Addie Zierman
#30. In a world of pushing, shoving, striving to get ahead at all costs people; to those who knew him well, John Mann was a breath of fresh air.
Matt Micros
#31. Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in.
Arthur Guiterman
#32. In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.
Cullen Murphy
#33. Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
Nathalie Sarraute
#34. Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.
Rafael Sabatini
#35. He's like a man with a fork, in a world of soup. (about his brother Liam)
Noel Gallagher
#37. The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
Talib Kweli
#38. I must accept my fate! But how was life to be lived in a world of which I had all the laws to learn? There would, however, be adventure! that held consolation; and whether I found my way home or not, I should at least have the rare advantage of knowing two worlds!
George MacDonald
#39. We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.
Allen Weinstein
#40. A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words - or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols - spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word.
Jorge Luis Borges
#41. You know," he went on almost under his breath, "every man who thinks for himself and feels vividly finds he lives in a world of his own, apart, and believes that one day he'll come across, either in a book or in a person, the Priest who shall make it clear to him.
Algernon Blackwood
#42. Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints
Ludwig Von Mises
#43. In the wind of the mind arises the turbulence called I.
It breaks; down shower the barren thoughts.
All life is choked.
This desert is the abyss wherein the Universe.
The Stars are but thistles in that waste.
Yet this desert is but one spot accursed in a world of bliss
Aleister Crowley
#44. She's familiar. My only familiar thing in a world of inconsistency and confusion.
Colleen Hoover
#45. Children, brought up naturally and in freedom, not only have imagination, but live in a world of imagination more real to them than our reality. ("Absolute Evil")
Julian Hawthorne
#46. The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace.
Rebecca Solnit
#47. In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land.
Mo Ibrahim
#48. We live in a world of evaluations, assessments, and measurements, but Jesus turns his gaze deeper because he knows that what is measurable can be faked.
Scot McKnight
#49. In a world of chemically induced sanity, a little lunacy confers immense advantages.
Iain Pears
#50. A heart's call for freedom can be its own form of bondage in a world of liberty lost.
Bryant McGill
#51. They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,
and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.
Woodrow Wilson
#52. Emma cursed the intensity of the faerie language- like meant nothing to them: They lived in a world of love or hate, scorn or adoration.
Cassandra Clare
#53. Lost in a world of
reaching.
My heart is formidable
I am still breathing.
Abigail George
#54. In a world of illusion, art is the soul shining through with the light of infinite potential.
Ka Chinery
#55. In a world of such beauty as birds in flight, surely I can come to feel at home again, even after my loss.
Martha Whitmore Hickman
#56. In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
James C. Collins
#57. We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?
Warren Spector
#58. Possibly the only dismaying aspect of excellence is that it makes living in a world of mediocrity an ongoing prospect of living hell.
Harlan Ellison
#59. We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.
H.G.Wells
#61. I can't stop watching black and white movies. I live in a world of Warner Brothers movies and all of that stuff from an older era, and I love them. I still love them. When I look at them, I sometimes think I was born in the wrong time.
William Forsythe
#62. We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.
Peter Diamandis
#63. Milk is the only juice in a world of cows.
Munia Khan
#64. Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity.
Jane Goodall
#65. While Aves, however real, exists in a world of uncertainty, Telemachus is a judgment as sure as night or day.
Peter Gray
#66. Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.
George Bernard Shaw
#67. The trouble is that each of us is his own hero, existing in a world of spear carriers.
Alexei Panshin
#68. In a world of smoke and ashes, you are milk and honey
India.Arie
#69. Sophia Redgrave was obviously living in a world of stereotypical perceptions.
Judy Angelo
#70. She wasn't scared of going deep, deep down in a world of no air and little light
Katherine Paterson
#71. We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.
Bell Hooks
#72. In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.
Alice Hoffman
#73. I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.
Kate Horsley
#74. We live in a world of many alarms, none of which sound our true concerns.
Guy Mankowski
#76. That such clumsily Soviet efforts are easily laughed off does not defeat their purpose, for their aim is not to persuade but to cast enough doubt to make the truth a matter of opinion. In a world of liars, might not the West be lying, too?
Anonymous
#77. I hope that we'll meet again in a world of peace and freedom in the taxi cab if the accident will.
Kurt Vonnegut
#78. A Course In Miracles is a constant affirmation that you are created by an unconditional thought of love that appears to have lost itself in a world of fear. Freedom, joy and peace of mind are yours again, when you remember and re-connect to your unconditional self.
Robert Holden
#79. In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a world of people whose identities seemed to come effortlessly.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#80. An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources.
Bryant McGill
#82. I work in a world of words - words that inspire, words that persuade and, increasingly, words that can send the message that it is acceptable to hate.
Chellie Pingree
#83. Indeed, in a world of the BlackBerry, remote access and Wi-Fi hotspots on every street corner, it feels particularly outdated that much of our working culture is still dominated by the need to be at our desk for long hours of the day.
Cherie Blair
#85. Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy.
Fred Barnes
#86. My reflection followed me mercilessly in mirrors, car doors, shop windows. I lived in a world of circus mirrors, the grotesque distortion of my body looking back at me everywhere.
Bethany Pierce
#87. Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
John Dewey
#88. Music is like medicine. It can bring relief to the aches and stressful situations that life brings. We live in a world of music. There is sound and rhythm everywhere we go!
Ellen J. Barrier
#89. I am the colour red, in a world of black and white and if you value your ability to breathe ... Don't get too close.
Bray Wyatt
#90. I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#91. In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act
Aldous Huxley
#92. In a world of wolves one should go armed, and one of the most powerful defensive weapons within the reach of Negroes is the practice of race first in all parts of the world.
Marcus Garvey
#93. In a world of knowledge and expertise, fame and fortune, status and ranks....nothing has the power to affect change as much as love and compassion.
Ka Chinery
#94. Surely in a world of email, video conferencing and virtual assistants, isn't being expected to show up at the office extremely anachronistic? Yet to date it seems that where one works does matter. That creativity and innovation do feed off physical interactions between people.
Noreena Hertz
#95. The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.
Terry Pratchett
#96. College education is the great Filipino dream. But in a world of rapid technological change, getting a job or keeping it depends as much on how well one reasons as how well one uses his hands.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#97. Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.
Harry Browne
#98. In a world of bosses, you are your own master
John Grogan
#99. Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
Anthony Hecht
#100. Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
Jose Saramago
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