Top 100 Quotes About The World
#1. The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.
John Keegan
#2. They held each other and wept as the night closed its fist around their tiny shelter, and the world below them seethed with killers both living and dead.
Jonathan Maberry
#3. Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
#4. You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world.
John Rogers
#5. One eye-witness weighs more than ten hearsays - Seeing is believing all the world over.
Plautus
#6. If you don't understand how the world works, then everything is a mystery to you. If everything is magical and mysterious, then you really don't work on logic anymore. Then, everything is all about belief.
Joy Reidenberg
#7. I would like", she resumed, "to see the world more innocently again, more impersonally, but I have no idea how to achieve this, other than by going somewhere completely unknown where I have no identity and no associations.
Rachel Cusk
#8. There are, I think, three countries left in the world where I can go and I'm not as well-known as I am here. I'm a pretty big star, folks - I don't have to tell you. Superstar, I guess you could say.
Bruce Willis
#9. Of course the Premier League is the most difficult league in the world because it's so even. I think you can't really compare other leagues with the Premier League. In the Premier League, every team can beat every team, and in football, that's something where you can have surprises.
Mesut Ozil
#10. When you see the world as it is, but insist on making it more like it could be, you matter.
Seth
#11. Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power.
Sathya Sai Baba
#12. The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.
Laozi
#13. The greatest management principle in the world is: 'the things that get rewarded and appreciated get done.'
Michael LeBoeuf
#15. I realised either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world.
And of course I was right.
Jack Kerouac
#16. Baggage is just the lies you tell yourself about the way things are. Those lies clutter up and obscure a clear perception of the world and other people.
Annette Vaillancourt
#17. When humanity's deafness to simple common sense is allowed to reign, the implications for the world can only be catastrophic.
Robert H. Lieberman
#18. The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.
Morris Raphael Cohen
#19. You can always-always-give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness! If everyone were to give in this way and didn't scrimp on kindly words, there would be much more love and justice in the world!
Anne Frank
#20. Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.
Bryan Clay
#21. Accepted nowhere, belonging nowhere, The Human Ant is forced to roam the world, half-ant, half-cow.
David Mamet
#22. Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
Martha Beck
#23. There should be a harmonious blend of religion, philosophy and art for man to live healthily in the world.
Sathya Sai Baba
#24. The whole transgender movement idea is happening in waves around the world. Some areas of the world are further along politically than others. The economy has a lot to do with that, as does moral or religious climate.
Kate Bornstein
#25. This sort of talk always bores me: old men complaining that the world is going to the dogs. It's so banal.
Robert Harris
#26. I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I believe in an India that is secure in itself and confident of its place in the world, an India that is a proud example of tolerance, freedom and hope for the downtrodden.
Shashi Tharoor
#27. We ought to be listening to see who the world-system wants to devalue and degrade, most often first with words, so that we can know for whom we should be speaking and standing.
Russell D. Moore
#28. The World has a First Cause, which may be regarded as the Mother of the World. When one has found the Mother, one can know the Child. Knowing the Child and still keeping the Mother, to the end of his days he shall suffer no harm.
Lao-Tzu
#29. I have seen giraffes in junglejims
their necks like love
wound around the iron circumstances
of the world.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#30. It is both the duty and responsibility of the world's fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many
Haile Selassie
#31. If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick you
Rick Riordan
#32. We have been told by God that if we sin against Him and break His commandments, He will bring judgment upon the world. It is my responsibility and my duty as a minister of the Gospel to [warn] people. This is the message I must deliver.
Billy Graham
#33. Responsibility is awareness, alertness, consciousness. Ego is just unconsciousness. They cannot coexist. As you grow more conscious you grow more towards light, and anything belonging to the world of darkness starts disappearing. Ego is nothing but darkness.
Rajneesh
#34. There are two distinct groups of people in the world: the ones who tell stories, and those who pay attention.
Daniel Goncalves
#35. (Imitating a Belarus citizen commenting on their national flag) Stupid National Anthem ... Look at this flag; Two bears fighting over a pineapple. What kind of message does that send to the world? Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit
Bill Bailey
#36. I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he helped liberate Dachau in the 7th Army.
Ed Royce
#37. It's the way of the world, man. There are the worker bees, and the manager bees. The worker bees take care of the work, the manager bees take care of themselves.
John Sandford
#38. Nothing is more useful than to look upon the world as it really is, and at the same time to seek elsewhere ... for the solace to its troubles.
Pope Leo XIII
#39. Love is tranquility in the world.
Zai
#40. We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world.
Chelsea Clinton
#41. The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
Mike Wallace
#42. The world is not given by our fathers, but borrowed from our children.
Wendell Berry
#43. We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.
Chuck Palahniuk
#44. Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.
Tom Clancy
#45. There is no good or evil. We classify things into good and evil because we are currently unable to solve the two problems of the world: death and dearth. If there ever comes a time when we can solve these problems, we won't be required to do this anymore.
Andreas Laurencius
#46. The feeling that dreams show us the real nature of reality is something that's shared by many indigenous groups around the world.
Stanley Krippner
#47. I was raised in an orthodox Jewish home where it was expected that, as a woman, I'd marry an investment banker, raise kids in the suburbs and go to temple. I wasn't raised to set the world on fire.
Dani Shapiro
#48. You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#49. There are major writers who have written books [based on my research]. If one looks carefully at the copyright page, you'll see my name. Writers of the stature of Mailer and even bigger. All over the world.
Lawrence Schiller
#50. I loved everyone who said yes to the world and tried to make it better instead of worse, because so much in the world was ugly- and just about all the ugly parts were due to humans.
Lauren Myracle
#51. There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.
Thomas Huxley
#52. A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#53. If you're single and not committed, then go for it. The world's your oyster. But, if you're happily married and want to remain happily married, then the only oyster should be the one sliding down your throat from your spouse.
Jack Dancer
#54. The world by its advertisements, its conversation, and its philosophy is engaged in a gigantic brainwashing task ... The Christian is beset by secular and worldly propaganda.
Billy Graham
#55. Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
Matthew Arnold
#56. The stability we cannot find in the world, we must create within our own persons.
Nathaniel Branden
#57. She seemed tired and watched the world outside like maybe she was expecting it to speak to her.
Junot Diaz
#58. He that loves the world, how active is he! He will break his peace and sleep for it. He that loves honour, what hazards will he run! He will swim to the throne in blood ... Love heaven, and you cannot miss it; love breaks through all opposition-it takes heaven by storm.
Thomas Watson
#59. The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
Albert Camus
#60. You are not alone in the world. You are part of an ensemble.
Rich Mullins
#61. There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.
Michael McKean
#62. It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible, ... They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
Bjork
#63. Caring for small things had to start with caring for big things, and maybe the world wasn't big enough.
Terry Pratchett
#64. I love what I do ... When I'm in there I don't want to be nowhere else in the world ... I love this game more than anything.
Conor McGregor
#65. Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.
Criss Jami
#67. A few times I invited Ba to visit me from the World of Yin. But other yin friends tell me he is stuck somewhere else, a foggy place where people believe their lies are true.
Amy Tan
#68. For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.
Ingeborg Bachmann
#69. The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
Susan B. Anthony
#70. There's so much other work love has to do in the world.
Rebecca Solnit
#71. Do not
Blame the world.
Find a solution.
Sri Chinmoy
#72. Then again," he continues, turning to me as we approach the busted old birdbath- the point where Neverland ends and the rest of the world begins- "never say never.
Kate Ellison
#73. My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.
Gillian Flynn
#75. There is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is in our midst; not because there is not enough, but owing to the misdirection of it.
Ernestine Rose
#76. While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.
Andy Kaufman
#77. The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.
Fareed Zakaria
#78. God wept; but that mattered little to an unbelieving age; what mattered most was that the world wept and still is weeping and blind with tears and blood. For there began to rise in America in 1876 a new capitalism and a new enslavement of labor.
Howard Zinn
#79. There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow it.
Noam Chomsky
#80. Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive.
Brad Pitt
#81. God's place is the world but the world is not God's place ...
Sinead O'Connor
#82. Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world's goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human species and bears witness against the social organization far more than does crime.
Flora Tristan
#83. But I can't clean your blood and yours, I'm afraid, is tainted. We'll educate you, feed and clothe you, send you out into the world. But I can't do anything to purify your blood.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#84. When men perceive the world as being right, we are content. But if we see a hole - a deficiency - we scramble to fill it.
Brandon Sanderson
#85. With technology you can now be your own record company, director, producer, etc. If you have talent, you can display it on the Internet and the world will tell you their thoughts in the matter of seconds!
Romeo Miller
#86. we're all in the business of selling ideas to the masses, and we all think our ideas are the ones to save the world,
Oliver Bowden
#87. It is in the world of things and places, times and troubles and turbid
processes, that mathematics is not so much applied as illustrated.
David Berlinski
#88. Did I know him? Did I love him? You ask me that? I knew him like you know nobody in the world, and I loved him like you love God.
Ernest Hemingway,
#89. Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.
Miroslav Volf
#90. The worst nightmare in the world is a radical Islamic regime with a weapon of mass destruction.
Lindsey Graham
#91. I always tend to think just left of center, to remove myself from the world by one step. It is very freeing, and it's a particular way of coming at stories and looking at them that I find the most beautiful stuff that I know comes from, ultimately.
Joss Whedon
#93. It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
G.K. Chesterton
#94. I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.
Bat For Lashes
#95. It is a fact that many of the wars and conflicts happening all over the world are aggravated or fought strictly for geopolitical fossil fuel energy interests, and many of the world's most dangerous regimes are funded by fossil fuel dollars.
Mark Ruffalo
#96. I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive.
Lil B
#97. As soon as we finished filming, I felt like I had been woken up from a magical dream and had to pinch myself to remember that it was real. Every scene is now a blur. I feel like I will be watching it for the first time with the rest of the world. I am nervous. But excited.
Lucy Fry
#98. What makes Will the best father in the world to me is that he's there, not just there in a way that's traditional. The emotional support he offers his children is immeasurable.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#99. No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.
Bertrand Russell
#100. As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.
Lea DeLaria
