In This World Of Quotes

#1. We live in this world of tweeting, and social media, and anti-social media, and all the rest, so no matter what you say, there is going to be what people say is a firestorm. I don't know what a firestorm is.

Al Michaels

#2. There are many bad things in this world of ours, but the use of the word 'monetize' has to rank high among them. Also, 'incentivize.' Actually, all the '-ize' words, like 'contextualize' and 'utilize' and 'prioritize.' And - this is almost too horrible to type - 'juniorize.'

Susan Orlean

#3. I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.

Carl Sandburg

#4. And isn't love between two people better than hatred, in this world of violence and mourning? There seemed to me a fragile kindness in their love that survived through this poisonous war. Even though one of them hadn't.

Jennifer Ryan

#5. If an angelic being fell from the sky and tried to live in this world of ours I think even they would commit many wrongs.

Sui Ishida

#6. There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't even started wondering about yet.

Roald Dahl

#7. In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

Patrick Ness

#8. Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing with comedy is that most of the time, you could be orange. It doesn't matter, as long you're funny.

Sandra Bullock

#9. In Udi's vocabulary, Jewish was equated with the ills of exile: rootless parasitic, superstitious. Yet here, in the Western Wall's solitary dignity, was beauty. In this world of stone, he felt softness; in this quarry of memory, peace.

Yossi Klein Halevi

#10. A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in this world of today as reading and writing.

H.G.Wells

#11. Well, in this world of basic stereotyping, give a guy a big nose and some weird hair and he is capable of anything.

Frank Zappa

#12. In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost.

Sophie Swetchine

#13. True wisdom, which is not certain of anything in this world of contradictions, would have prevented him from attaining his present position. It would have alarmed his superiors, and done away with his chances of promotion.

Joseph Conrad

#14. There's a shortage in this world of I believe in you. So say love ... you never know who might need it.

Hilary Weeks

#15. Be conscious of one another and everything that we are connected to in this world of ours (not just your relatives and friends).

Noelle Scaggs

#16. As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.

Zach Galifianakis

#17. More hearts are breaking in this world of ours Than one would say. In distant villages And solitudes remote, where winds have wafted The barbed seeds of love, or birds of passage Scattered them in their flight, do they take root, And grow in silence, and in silence perish.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#18. What use was her grown-up knowledge
acquired through such initiations, at such risk
in this world of infants, who had to be kept safe?

Tessa Hadley

#19. The way to escape our entrapment in this world of matter is to acquire secret "knowledge" (= gnosis) from above of who we really are, how we came to be here, and how we can return to our heavenly, spiritual home.

Bart D. Ehrman

#20. In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail.

Chris Murray

#21. A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#22. In this world of rights, the one who dares to be wrong, discovers the truth.

Saurabh Sharma

#23. Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?

James Hogg

#24. There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

Grantland Rice

#25. In this world of uncertainty and woe, one thing remains unchanged: Fresh, canned, pureed, dried, salted, sliced, and served with sugar and cream, or pressed into juice, the tomato is reliable, friendly, and delicious. We would be nothing without it.

Laurie Colwin

#26. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

H.L. Mencken

#27. People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.

Theodore Zeldin

#28. in this world of everything

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#29. If Christians would have the same faith in their God that non-Christians have in a mere materialistic idea, 'Thy Kingdom come' would shortly be a reality in this world of sorrow and travail.

Ben Salmon

#30. Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.

Sharon Salzberg

#31. All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will and too many with audacity, surprises are inevitable, too few of them are the kind that make you smile and that lift your heart.

Dean Koontz

#32. Never miss a joy in this world of trouble-that's my theory! ...
Happiness, like mercy,is twice blest: it blesses those most
intimately associated with it and it blesses all those who see
it, hear it, touch it or breathe the same atmosphere.

Kate Douglas Wiggin

#33. Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task.

Hjalmar Branting

#34. Gandhi's idea of swadeshi-that local societies should put their own resources and capacities to use to meet their needs as a basic element of freedom-is becoming increasingly relevant. We cannot afford to forget that we need self-rule, especially in this world of globalization.

Vandana Shiva

#35. Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?

Alan Lightman

#36. In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.

William S. Burroughs

#37. Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love.

Aprilynne Pike

#38. In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.

Christopher Pike

#39. My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

Roald Dahl

#40. In this world of many consequences, people help people to achieve or to fail, take care of whom to trust.

Auliq Ice

#41. We live in this world of great promise, where everything seems to offer an unchanging final happiness, if we can only get enough of it. It is very intoxicating.

Sharon Salzberg

#42. Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.

Rumi

#43. In this world of plenty, a tiny baby, who does not yet understand the mystery of the world, is allowed to cry and cry and finally fall asleep without the milk she needs to survive.

Muhammad Yunus

#44. Drink in the beauty of friendship. In this world of constant change, we need the comfort of friendship more than ever before.

Susan Jeffers

#45. Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.

Thomas Carlyle

#46. Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.

Jeanette Winterson

#47. I believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship. Therefore my task is to cultivate disciplined, self-denying, careful, tasteful friendships.

Ivan Illich

#48. I remember a time when all I wanted was a gun and to learn how to use it. I thought a gun would make me feel safe. I thought a gun would make me feel powerful. But right now I just feel . . . heavy. Like I live in this world of death and destruction and I'll never escape alive.

Paula Stokes

#49. Love! In this world of sadness, you are my happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#50. One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because ... we perceive anyone else who's doing anything differently than what we're doing as criticizing our choices.

Brene Brown

#51. In this world of illusion, where at the end of the examination, we find everything to be of little importance, of little worth, if there is a sign of reality, of something one can depend upon, and in which one can recognize a sign of eternity, it is in the constancy of friendship.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#52. What's happened to marriage? The wedding-industrial complex. Brides get swept up in this world of obsession - it has to be your perfect day.

Dave Barry

#53. Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.

Aleister Crowley

#54. You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.

Dolly Parton

#55. In this world of endless opportunities our dreams compete. If we wait to start a journey, the destination may not be anymore what we wanted to find.

Gisela Hausmann

#56. Thus, in this world of brief scenes from the future, few risks are taken. Those who have seen the future do not need to take risks, and those who have not yet seen the future wait for their visions without taking risks.

Alan Lightman

#57. Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

C.S. Lewis

#58. How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him still, The dear Christ enters in.

Phillips Brooks

#59. Steel can be tempered and hardened, and so can men. In this world of struggle, which was not designed for softies, a man must be harder than what hits him. Yes, he must be diamond-hard. Then he'll not be "fed up" with his little personal troubles.

Herbert Newton Casson

#60. I have no fear here, in this world of trees, weeds, and growing things.

Bell Hooks

#61. In this world of hate there has to be a light Be that light and spread some love Maybe this day the youth can make a difference, No more hate!

Christofer Drew

#62. Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.

Muhammad Iqbal

#63. The effects of her words stung me, and after she stole away I stood a long while before her looking glass, studying my profile, the line I cut in this world of men and ladies.

Patrick DeWitt

#64. Love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds

E. E. Cummings

#65. What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace an egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men.

Jack Vance

#66. He almost caused a riot among the ladies; he filled all the empty space, as if someone had let a tiger loose in this world of female longing. Even

Isabel Allende

#67. In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.

Eduardo Galeano

#68. She began to feel that she had not yet gone through all the changes of opinion and sentiment, which the progress of time and variation of circumstances occasion in this world of changes.

Jane Austen

#69. It is not a matter of who is rejecting me, as much as it is somebody may get it, and I am going to keep plowing through it because in this world of education, there is a harvest.

Bill Cosby

#70. In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

Sophie Swetchine

#71. That place I'm talking about ain't nothing but a bloody slit in this world of His. But everybody wants to rule over it. It ain't for the white man to rule. Ain't for any man to rule.

Jonathan Odell

#72. In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, even though it be covertly, and by snatches.

Herman Melville

#73. In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.

Hayao Miyazaki

#74. Love! In this world of pain, you're my vintage wine.

Debasish Mridha

#75. People want to be happy, so they don't want to feel as though they're mired in this world of ugliness. I think that if people can recognize that you can actually help and change that ugliness, then you'll feel a lot better about yourself as well, and that does create a certain amount of happiness.

Sheryl WuDunn

#76. Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#77. He's not afraid of anyone, m'lord."
"He should be. Fear is what keeps a man alive in this world of treachery and deceit.

George R R Martin

#78. The rain came before I'd gone a block. A few drops at first, and then a downpour. I didn't turn back. I tipped my face to the sky. Welcomed the coolness on my skin. In this world of mine, it was the rain, it was the rain alone, that made sense.

Makiia Lucier

#79. In this impersonal world of the nine-digit zip code, credit cards, and numbered bank accounts, in this world of no marriage, late marriage, and remarriage, the operative word in office relationships is 'family.

Lois Wyse

#80. In this world of ours,
We eat only to cast out,
Sleep only to wake,
And what comes after all that
Is simply to die at last.

Matsuo Basho

#81. Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others ...

Alexandre Dumas

#82. In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

Robyn Hitchcock

#83. I think I have so much more to accomplish in this world of acting. There are many different types of characters I want to play. I want to keep making people laugh, and I want to explore dramatic roles as well.

Dilshad Vadsaria

#84. As a Sufi I had sworn to protect life and do no harm. In this world of illusions, so many people were readt ti fight without any reason, and so many others fought for a reason. But the Sufi was the one who wouldn't fight even if he had a reason.

Elif Shafak

#85. In this world of smartphones, be a smart-app.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#86. After all, in this world of humans, he was little better than a monster, and what did a monster have to be afraid of in the dark?

Darren Shan

#87. In this world of Maya, which is averse to the Lord, full of trials and tribulations, only patience, humility and respect for others are our friends for Hari bhajana.

Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati

#88. In this world of dreams, drifting off still more; and once again speaking and dreaming of dreams. Just let it be.

Ryokan

#89. There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things ...

William Henry Hudson

#90. The time we waste never comes again. The opportunities we miss never come again. The loves we lose never come again. Indeed, in this world of constant change we are fortunate that these things never come again.

Frederick Lenz

#91. Of all there is to know in this world, of all the mysteries and complexities of life, the knowledge of God and his ways are the most critical.

Joe Thorn

#92. Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

Adolf Hitler

#93. Love! In this world of sorrow, you're my source of joy.

Debasish Mridha

#94. Yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skilfully curled) all worlds

E. E. Cummings

#95. You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.

Tracey Ullman

#96. I wasn't exactly sure what "nothing good" meant, but I could imagine in this world of humans, "nothing good" could mean a lot of bad things.

Tamra Torero

#97. Christ's whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness - the setting forth in living act and word what man is meant to be, and how he should carry himself in this world of God - one long campaign in which the temptation stands out as the first great battle and victory.

Thomas Hughes

#98. Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.

Winston Churchill

#99. Paths cross all the time in this world of our, sometimes in the strangest places.

Stephen King

#100. He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.

Lord Byron