Top 100 Quotes About Saving The World
#1. Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.
Jim Fowler
#2. Our parents' death broke his sense of wonder. My left-brained brother, who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who tries.
Lauren DeStefano
#3. You should just dump the whole saving the world plan and go with global domination. It's probably be more fun.
Katie MacAlister
#4. I think if I were a superhero saving the world, I'd expect at least not to have to pay income taxes. I mean there should be something in it for a hero who risks his life to save mankind every day.
Stan Lee
#5. God does everything perfectly. The world doesn't really need saving; it's exactly the way God wants it to be at the moment.
Frederick Lenz
#6. My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first economist to try to rehabilitate Gordon Brown.
Simon Hoggart
#7. I imagined your stick, washing in the waves for hundreds of years, turning to driftwood, smooth and hard like stone. I imagined a little girl finding it on a beach so many years later. Saving it on her shelf, where she put the things that made her feel like the world was magical.
Ava Dellaira
#8. As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce ...
Jacqueline Novogratz
#9. That's my brother," I said. "Saving the world, one girl at a time.
Kim Harrington
#10. A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.
Donella Meadows
#11. Spider-Man's probably my favorite. You see, Batman is a billionaire and there's nothing really cool about a billionaire saving the world. But Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a conflicted character who puts on a suit and saves the world. I love that.
Zac Efron
#12. If we fix the Breaks, you won't have to deal with that anymore. Saving the world sounds great, but it's not a bad deal that we get to save ourselves in the bargain.
- Riq
James Dashner
#13. I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.
Chuck D
#14. Women need to turn their attention from saving their spouse, their mothers, their this, their that, their kids, to putting that financial oxygen mask on their face first. When they're solid, they can pick up the whole world.
Suze Orman
#15. Heroes became extinct when saving the world became more important to rescue a damsel in distress.
L.A. Serrot
#16. Because I must do something while I still can. Each soul is still incalculably precious.
Michel Faber
#17. I thought if we made an album that tried to change the world, or give it hope, it would really happen. But all people found was death and destruction and misery and self-hate. I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try.
Gerard Way
#18. It is where the balance quivers, and the proportions are veiled in mist, that the opportunity for world-saving decisions presents itself.
Winston S. Churchill
#19. We don't do what we do for the glory or the fame or the credit; we do it for the quiet satisfaction of making the world a better place, saving the lives of innocents, and being better than you are.
Derek Landy
#20. If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world
Asahel Nettleton
#21. A lot of local food is very tasty. I'm very happy to eat it. I just don't think it's the same thing as saving the world.
Tyler Cowen
#22. There are a whole bunch of people - Republicans or sports fans or reality TV fans - who probably would never have recognized that they have trans people in their world. Caitlyn Jenner really is thinking about the movement and saving lives, so I know that her intentions are honorable.
Jill Soloway
#23. The handshake got a third arm as Blake entered and joined in. This was magic for Beckett, pure and simple. The world slowed down, and his cares melted away as he looked from face to face. He loved these men so fiercely, it'd probably scare them if they knew.
Debra Anastasia
#24. There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.
Tom Robbins
#25. It's so easy, when you never meet people, when you never know the Earth itself ... it's easy to forget why Earth is worth saving. Why the world of people might be worth the price you pay.
Orson Scott Card
#26. Time travel? Saving the world? Had I fallen into a straight-to-DVD release?
Myra McEntire
#27. To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world.
Elon Musk
#29. Reason is the hero who breaks the chains of our prejudice, saving us from the prison of our comfortable acquiescence in the way of the world.
Montague Brown
#30. I end up saving the world, just to save you
Hiroya Oku
#31. In your dreams you can see yourself as a prophet saving the world.
Frank Zappa
#32. She was running out of the room as fast as she could, with the sword raised before her. She called back to her father. I'll be back soon. I've just got to save the world.
Karen Foxlee
#33. I'm not comfortable in this stadium," I explained, trying to look calm.
"I know. And you hate Fang looking at those girls. But we're still having
fun, and Fang still loves you, and you'll still save the world. Okay?
James Patterson
#34. She decided she would just be a fairy because she liked the option of flying without the responsibility of saving the world.
Amy Harmon
#35. In the end, they will say this of the human race: they had the freedom to go anywhere, but sat in front of the television. They were each responsible for saving the world, but they turned over the channel.
Craig Stone
#36. There is nothing wrong with saving the world, but it's a little boring.
John Hyams
#37. When you bring something truly new to the world, brace. Having an impact is not usually a pleasant experience. Sometimes the hardest part of creating is not having an idea but saving an idea, ideally while also saving yourself.
Kevin Ashton
#38. Saving" in short, in the modern world, is only another form of spending.
Henry Hazlitt
#39. Now comes the really amazing part. What is offered to the world, to everyone who hears the gospel, is not a love or saving achievement designed for all and therefore especially for no one; but rather, what is offered is the absolute fullness of all that Christ achieved for his elect.
John Piper
#40. Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.
Jim Butcher
#41. You can help me pick out a tiara when we're done saving the world.
Marissa Meyer
#42. A superior brain without the saving essence of godliness may turn against the human race and drench the world in blood, or worse, it may loose ideas into the earth which will continue to curse mankind for centuries after it has turned to dust again.
A.W. Tozer
#43. Even if they didn't win the battle, even if she couldn't save these kids, Angel knew, as she'd always known, that Max was their only chance at saving the world.
James Patterson
#44. Nobody said saving the world had to be boring.
Rigel Carson
#45. We should all stop wasting time using things we need, and start using most of our time saving them!
Carollynn Lemky
#46. Logan," I interrupt, and finally he looks up. "Can't we just save the world first?"
"My world's not worth saving without you," he replies.
Then he turns and walks away.
Aprilynne Pike
#47. Saving children in humanity should always weigh greater than all world politics. The children we save today is the future that we save tomorrow.
Bullying Ben
Timothy Pina
#48. Today it is imperative that any distinction or division should be overcome, because the choice between saving the world and changing it is a false one. They are intimately related, the work of redemption and the work of restoration.
Michael White
#49. I asked John if it was a crime to want to live in a world where girls with falcon eyes and pretty underwear believe in the saving grace of rock 'n' roll and he said, "Just check your chute before you jump, that's all I'm saying." Gotta get some sleep. Over.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#50. My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if I'm telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.
Aaron Huey
#51. I want to be the girl in Indiana Jones. I would love to do an adventure movie where I was saving the world. It might be cool if I used a lot of kitchen tools to fight off the enemy.
Roseanne Barr
#52. California has something which not every place in the world has: It has what I would call a sunny side, and I don't mean just physically, but the sunny side is a future. California's worth saving, to put it bluntly.
Nicolas Berggruen
#53. I'm not trying to save the world, much of it is not worth saving.
John Shors
#54. You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing ... and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.
Sam Worthington
#55. Peace is your priority, not saving the world. That follows that.
Eckhart Tolle
#56. I hoped I wasn't actually dead. That would make finding our parents and saving the world really hard.
James Patterson
#58. There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction.
John Foster Dulles
#59. Saving one dog will not change the world, but surely for that one dog, the world will change forever.
Karen Davison
#60. The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
G.K. Chesterton
#61. Wait a minute, even I've hearda him. He died savin' the entire universe.
Choked on cum...
Garth Ennis
#62. Besides my love for horses and cars, I am passionate about making the cheapest vaccines in the world. I started making life-saving drugs when I was 22.
Cyrus S. Poonawalla
#63. Maybe they'd use biological or chemical weapons instead. Maybe they'd crash the world economy. Maybe they'd turn every program on television into one of those reality shows."
"That's mostly done already, Harry."
"Oh. Well. I've got to believe that the world is worth saving anyway.
Jim Butcher
#64. Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#65. Every living thing is sacred to me. Compassion and love can heal this world, which is set on fire of violence and hatred. I will teach the world about compassion, and end the suffering by halting these floods of sorrow. Said Prince Siddhartha and began his journey of saving the man kind." ,
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
#66. Great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.
Charles Bukowski
#67. Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world ... Photography is a system of saving memories. It's a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, to preserve time.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#68. When you're a Scientologist it's like the movie Goodfellas, where the gangsters hang out with only other gangsters. We only hung out with each other, so we knew we were saving the world.
Kate Bornstein
#69. Republicans don't want to 'save the world'; they want to save the country from those who would 'save the world.
Richard D. Kahlenberg
#70. When you're off saving the world, you'll come to a point where you discover it was just yourself that needed saving.
Atle Jarnaes Leroy
#71. I think designers are starting to realize that we're all in the same industry. We're making clothes - we aren't saving the world. I'm not saying that designers aren't artists, but at the end of the day, we make clothes.
Joseph Altuzarra
#72. Prejudice is one of the world's greatest labor-saving devices; it enables you to form an opinion without having to dig up the facts.
Laurence J. Peter
#73. Transference is that set of ways of perceiving and responding to the world which is developed in childhood and which is usually entirely appropriate to the childhood environment (indeed, often life-saving) but which is inappropriately transferred into the adult environment.
M. Scott Peck
#74. Even having saved the world doesn't make me feel good about myself. Perhaps it's something you get habituated to; each new world-saving moment has to be bigger and better than the last to give you that same dopamine and serotonin kick. Maybe heroes are just junkies.
Charlie Human
#75. Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.
Melinda Gates
#76. Why bother? Maybe the world's not worth saving. She knew he meant it, too. Those lifeless eyes spoke volumes.
Sarah J. Maas
#77. I had begun what I thought might be a career in social work. I was married and deeply involved in the anti-war movement. I thought I'd go about saving the world one person at a time. I worked with kids, teenagers mostly, in neighborhood centers, on the streets, and eventually in a drop-in center.
John Dufresne
#78. What's a hero, if not for its journey. I think you're going to recontextualize what saving the world means, and I think that you will be satisfied with the stakes. That's all I can say about that.
J.H. Wyman
#79. World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.
Robert Kiyosaki
#80. Cutting food waste is a delicious way of saving money, helping to feed the world and protect the planet.
Tristram Stuart
#81. While American taxes pay for much of the research and development that goes into creating the new, life-saving drugs, American consumers continue to subsidize the cost of the drugs for consumers across the world.
Michael K. Simpson
#82. Do not think me a maiden who needs saving from a dragon. I am the dragon, and I will set the world aflame.
Sydney Marie Hughes
#83. Three generations. All of them growing. The working. The saving. The success. Three generations in raptures over America. Three generations of becoming one with a people. And now with the fourth it had all come to nothing. The total vandalization of their world.
Philip Roth
#84. We are gripped by God's will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God's love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.
Albert Schweitzer
#85. Oh, just shut up and fuck me so we can get on with saving the world.
Kristen Ashley
#86. Why save the rainforest, the whales, or the world when you can devote your time to saving syllables?
Lindsay Faith Rech
#87. What did I care about saving the world if the world couldn't, wouldn't, save her?
Julian Barnes
#88. Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
Winston S. Churchill
#89. And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation.
Henry Miller
#90. Sometimes the good guy rips out innocent people's throats. That's just something the world need to live with if it wants the good guy to keep saving the day.
Bradley Sands
#91. Saving a single wondrous thing is better than saving the world. For one thing, it's more achievable. The world is never content to stay saved.
T. Kingfisher
#92. I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.
Sebastian Junger
#93. 'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
Ian McKellen
#94. These people locked themselves up in a mental hospital and set about saving the world without actually taking any risks because they knew that, outside, they would be thought ridiculous, even if some of their ideas were very practical.
Paulo Coelho
#95. If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically.
Judi Bari
#96. - Did you really save the world ? ...
- Mostly I was saving my own ass. Just happend that the world was in the same spot.
Jim Butcher
#97. You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski
#98. If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.
Justin Cronin
#99. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#100. Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.
E.B. White
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