Quotes About A World

#1. In the past five minutes, I had managed to tease my libido, scald my crotch, and catch a world-class elbow with my forehead.

B. Justin Shier

#2. She knew now that no one could be neutral - not anymore - and as afraid as she was of risking Sophie's life, she was suddenly more afraid of letting her daughter grow up in a world where good people did nothing to stop evil, where a good woman could turn her back on a friend in need.

Kristin Hannah

#3. Human experience comes suspended in the sickly-sweet amniotic fluid of commercial photography. And a world normally animated by abrasive differences is blithely reduced to a single, homogeneous National Geographic way of seeing.

Geoffrey Batchen

#4. I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

Condoleezza Rice

#5. In order for the Prevail Scenario to work ... you will have to have a world in which you have both differences between people and opportunities for intense connectedness.

Joel Garreau

#6. I believe being strong means I can kiss you and still fight my enemies and succeed. I can show emotion and be complicated and hope for love and family and friends in a world that is telling me I can die tomorrow.

Alicia D'Aversa

#7. I get asked quite often if I'm an anarchist. If they want to put a label on me, that's fine. What is most important to me is to live in a world that is not being murdered.

Derrick Jensen

#8. The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#9. Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.

Jon Meacham

#10. The male author unthinkingly creates a world in which every single member of society is male except - hey presto! - when the protagonist feels like getting laid. Especially common in science fiction; apparently many writers assume that in the future women will die out.

Howard Mittelmark

#11. [My work as a photographer is a] mission to document endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving.

Joel Sartore

#12. But the web is to some degree a broth of psychopaths seeing what they can get away with in circumstances of anonymity. Look, we live in a world where one is unsafe in various ways because of the Internet. Anything can be said. Someone can look at your house from space.

William Monahan

#13. I've always liked books," she said softly. "I love being around them. I love getting loaf in a story, a world. I love that I can become anyone, that I can become anyone, that I can live any fantasy.

Bella Andre

#14. One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.

Virginia Woolf

#15. Affliction equips the suffering to empathize with others in anguish and not only does it strengthen them, it enables them to be consoling comforters in a world full of hurt.

Donna Lynn Hope

#16. The record industry is a world within itself.

Edwin Starr

#17. It isn't the young men who call to her at night. It's the Forest. It's the whisper of the trees that there's somethine else, outside the fences. That there's still a world that's bigger than any she could ever comprehend and all she has to do is find the strength to go after it.

Carrie Ryan

#18. I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.

Anais Nin

#19. It is a world," he said, "filled with the mysterious joinder of accident!"
"It is a world," replied Abner, "filled with the mysterious justice of God!

Melville Davisson Post

#20. We're so structured and micromanaged, this isn't a world anymore, it's a damn cruise ship.

Chuck Palahniuk

#21. Even though what I enjoy most is literature, I would not want to live only in a world of fiction, cut off from the rest of life. No - I want to always have a foot in the street, to be inmersed in the activities of my contemporaries, in the times, in the place where I live.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#22. Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

Bell Hooks

#23. Most of all I loved the serenity that came from being alone in a world of books at the same time not being alone because the world was around me, some if it real, the vast majority of it worlds all their own, contained on pages bound to a cover.

Kristen Ashley

#24. Neil started for the door, but Kevin put a hand on his shoulder to stop him. "Neil."
There was a world of regret in that name, but it was a promise, too.

Nora Sakavic

#25. I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.

Richard Flanagan

#26. I was born into a world in which the most compelling stories are through film. But that wasn't always the case. Everything changes; everything evolves.

Chris Milk

#27. A world that begins to witness the rebirth of trust among nations can find its way to a peace that is neither partial nor punitive. With all who will work in good faith toward such a peace, we are ready, with renewed resolve, to strive to redeem the near-lost hopes of our day.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#28. I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

Kate Winslet

#29. Hell of a world we live in, huh? ( ... ) But it could be worse, huh?"
"That's right," I said, "or even worse, it could be perfect.

William Gibson

#30. In a world like that, there'd be no need for love anymore either. if everyone were perfect, there would be no need to look out for others. Sympathy or Love is needed because people are imperfect. A perfect human cannot love anyone.

Tamiki Wakaki

#31. In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.

Francis Schaeffer

#32. In moments they would be here - the ones Kircher had called the Cenobites, theologians of the Order of the Gash. Summoned from their experiments in the higher reaches of pleasure, to bring their ageless heads into a world of rain and failure.

Clive Barker

#33. What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?

Mark Twain

#34. 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."

Phil Callaway

#35. A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place

Bill McKibben

#36. Being human in a world with no tolerance for humanity felt like a setup, a game I couldn't win. But instead of understanding that there might be something wrong with the world, I decided there was something wrong with me.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#37. Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were.

Ricky Jay

#38. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Omar Nelson Bradley

#39. Take a moment to imagine a world led by China or Russia. So we must lead.

Paul Ryan

#40. Create a world within the world and be happy inside it! Don't forget, you are not condemned to live the world as is!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#41. This was never about the money ... Don't you understand? A world without good art is a far more dangerous place than one you don't get paid for making it in.

Dimitri Zaik

#42. Scientists who do deny their politics - who claim to be objective and unemotional about gender while living in a world where even boats and automobiles are identified by sex - are fooling both themselves and the public at large.

Anne Fausto-Sterling

#43. We might have reason to be driven! We live for a short stretch of time in a world we share with others. Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat.

Amartya Sen

#44. Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

Francis Parker Yockey

#45. To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

Louise Bourgeois

#46. There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.

Jeanne Shaheen

#47. She didn't do people, dammit. She did books. A world of difference

Vic James

#48. What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.

Romare Bearden

#49. In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a monopoly over information.

Ron Chernow

#50. Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously ...

L.M. Montgomery

#51. I mean, she was just cool, you know? And she didn't even mean to be. She was just a hundred-watt lightbulb in a world of forty-watt bulbs. She shone.

Nick Lake

#52. I am more concerned about a world led by people, who think like machines ...

Haim Harari

#53. Say a woman is more than the sum of her parts and I'll listen. Say she is more than fruit and blossom and branch and I'll nod my head yes. But say the body does not want and I will fall to the floor under the weight of a world that does not need the sweet talk of a heartbeat.

Sonja Livingston

#54. Victory gave us such insane delusions of grandeur that we helped start a world war we hadn't a chance of winning. But now that we are losing again, everything has taken a turn for the better, and we will certainly come out on top again if we succeed in being defeated.

Joseph Heller

#55. Though "instincts" or "drives" can be formulated in physiological and biological terms they cannot be pinned down in that way, for they are also psychic entities which manifest themselves in a world of fantasy peculiarly their own. They

C. G. Jung

#56. The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.

Barry Diller

#57. To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

Gordon Brown

#58. So many young people feel powerless. We live in a world where it feels like it's so big and yet so small, and that your contribution really doesn't matter.

Lorraine Toussaint

#59. When you're placed in a world where survival is the main focus, a lot of that other stuff, like wrongdoings in the past, become obsolete. You have to focus on the here and now. Yes, there is tension between the two of them.

Alycia Debnam Carey

#60. I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like a warning for us to not lose touch of our humanity. We live in a world in which we watch other's misfortunes for entertainment.

Amandla Stenberg

#61. Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

Plutarch

#62. To me extreme things are like miracles. There is nothing as boring as a person who is just okay. But I could easily live in a world populated with these disjunctive, bizarre things ... I operate out of confusion, towards clarity.

Joel-Peter Witkin

#63. In a world without fences, who needs Gates?

Scott McNealy

#64. Nothing appears to succeed like success in a world that is principally made up of failure.

Radclyffe Hall

#65. Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces, a world dominated by a mechanical, materialist,
Western European civilization.

Charles Lindbergh

#66. I fear that we are living in a society, living in a world where forgiving people is becoming more and more difficult to do.

Tavis Smiley

#67. 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.

Bill Bradley

#68. Anything salty and crunch is a world of perfection to me. Put chips in front of me, and I will eat to the bottom of the bag. Because I have the tendency to do this, I found these amazing Eden Brown Rice Chips. They're the perfect amount of salt and crunch, and there's nothing in them.

Tamara Taylor

#69. The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious - as safe, effective, and delightful as a cherry tree.

William McDonough

#70. Accidents and chance are words used by persons who do not think clearly when they attempt to account for certain happenings. Anyone who thinks must be convinced that in a world as orderly as this there is no room for the words accident and chance.

Harold Percival

#71. The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant slave, an untiring steel Negro, controlled by Reason in a world of infinite resources.

Robert Hughes

#72. A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

Hans Hofmann

#73. I'm a Mormon. I don't do a lot of the off-the-field activities that athletes are known to do. And I guess I've created a world that is unlike the typical world of a professional athlete.

Jeff Kent

#74. In a world which contains the present moment, why discriminate? Nothing should be named lest by so doing we change it.

Virginia Woolf

#75. I think people are turning inward more now cause the world's got in such a weird, crazy state. I think its making people think more about their life and what it is really that they are doing. And how do we interact with a world that's going crazy? It's a very important time.

Dave Davies

#76. We live in a world that has practically no appreciation for quality, tradition, or classiness, and in which people who can't spell even common words get to decide what survives. That

Bill Bryson

#77. The next generation of women will enter a world in which they are perceived to have more opportunities for creating fulfilling lives than women have ever had before.

Elizabeth Debold

#78. Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.

Winston Churchill

#79. We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the web.

DJ Spooky

#80. Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians

Terry Pratchett

#81. Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.

Alan Lightman

#82. The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil.

Bertrand Russell

#83. Dreams are a beautiful bride
that holds our hands to
enter a world more glorious
than this one.

Subhan Zein

#84. You have to move from just working for money to a world where money works for you.

Tony Robbins

#85. People whom live in a world dominated by science and technology are losing belief in God and turning away from religion. Science eliminated the traditions that formerly made living an art form including the rain celebration of spring and traditional harvest festivals.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#86. This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

Barry Diller

#87. I'm living in a world someone has thought up without bothering to tell me, or maybe even himself.

Arkady Strugatsky

#88. There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.

Dan Brown

#89. It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#90. We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.

Mary McLeod Bethune

#91. The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.

Leos Carax

#92. What insanity propels me to incessantly invest in a world that never ceases to fail me? And what ignorance bewitches me so thoroughly that it keeps me from investing in a God who never ceases to be unfailing?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#93. The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things.

Chloe Thurlow

#94. We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over.

Doug Aitken

#95. To enter a world of shadows is to leave this world for another.

Anthony Doerr

#96. Let us respect others no one lives alone in a city, a nation, or a world.

Thomas S. Monson

#97. The world designed by God cannot be a world in which some hoard immoderate wealth in their hands, while others suffer from destitution and poverty, and die of hunger. Love must inspire justice and the struggle for justice

Pope John Paul II

#98. With 'Palo Alto' as the catalyst, I've surrounded myself with people that have kind of created a world where I can feel like I'm not gonna be judged for doing something that I want to do.

Jack Kilmer

#99. Step into the center of the center of the center - right into your Now - and see: how elegant and honest this moment is. Just being yourself, a world to hold your feet, a universe to lift your gaze, a heart beating - constant, in the center of it all.

Laurie Perez

#100. By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is a world without feeling ... But a world without feeling is a world without pain.

Daniel Keyes