Top 100 The World Is Quotes
#1. The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.
John Desmond Bernal
#2. The world is a very different place, where steel can be bent and twisted. But maybe that is the point - that steel is no the greatest metal in the world - the human spirit is.
Tribute WTC Visitor Center
#3. I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
Nina Simone
#4. When your desires drop, the world is there, but it is a totally new world. It is so fresh, it is so colorful, it is so beautiful! But a mind attached to things cannot see it because eyes are closed with attachment.
Rajneesh
#5. Money is nice, but the world is full of things that people would never sell. Favors and obligation are worth far, far more.
Patrick Rothfuss
#6. Our ingress into the world was naked and bare; our progress through the world is trouble and care; our egress from the world will be nobody knows where; but if we do well here we shall do well there.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#7. If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation
Dalai Lama
#8. The most powerful weapon in the world is, Question.
Krishna Sagar
#9. The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.
Hafez
#10. You never know who you'll meet. The world is about connections, Regina. Not just who you know, but who they know. It's all one big web, everything interconnected, everyone tugging on each other's strings.
Jennifer McMahon
#11. See how slippery the world is, Edgar,' he whispered. 'See how most folks spin their way across it without thought or direction. But find a straight line through it and there's nothing you can't achieve.
Elizabeth Garner
#12. The world is so closed off to the inner beings of ourselves, I refuse to ever lower my energies to that.
Nikki Rowe
#13. While the most dangerous person in the world is a person with nothing to lose, the most powerful person in the world is a person with nothing to prove.
Tyler Perry
#14. I'm quite pessimistic about climate change. This is an urgent problem, and much of the world is only now waking up to the easiest part of solving - the realization that anthropogenic global warming is real.
Philip Kitcher
#16. Every man in the world is either a Realist or a Nominalist. Give yourself a test: if someone called you a gigger or a fell-picker, and you knew it wasn't true, would you hit him or smile? That's how easy it is to tell.
Alexei Panshin
#17. Oh we will all fry together when we fry. We'll be french fried potatoes by and by. There will be no more misery When the world is our rotisserie, Yes, we will all fry together when we fry.
Tom Lehrer
#18. The world, I soon learned, held a different estimate: and I make no doubt, the world is very right in its view, yet believe also that I am not quite wrong in mine.
Charlotte Bronte
#19. The most liberating feeling in the world is to not give the negative opinions of others any traction.
Carlos Wallace
#20. Don't ever let anyone treat your life as a revolving door, In and out as they please. The world is supposed to revolve, not your life. No Circles.
Andrea L'Artiste
#21. The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.
Vanessa Veselka
#22. The worst negotiator in the world is a man who believes he's clever.
Ken Follett
#23. The world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her!
Marie Corelli
#24. The world is vast and meant for wandering.
Nick Burd
#26. I think all animals have souls. I feel certain that if we have souls, octopuses have souls, too. If you grant something a soul, it demands a certain level of sacredness. Look around us. The world is holy. It is full of souls.
Sy Montgomery
#28. Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
Oscar Wilde
#29. We must not love the world, nor the things of the world, until the world is sanctified and prepared to be presented to the Father with the Saints upon it; then they will inhabit it for ever and ever.
Brigham Young
#30. One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.
E.W. Howe
#31. The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive ... and begin to act accordingly.
Shakti Gawain
#32. There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.
Madeleine Albright
#33. The world is divided into three parts of which two parts are meat balls and spaghetti and the other part a huge syphilitic chancre.
(revised, correct quote)
Henry Miller
#34. The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind.
Joe Abercrombie
#35. I'm not suggesting the world is good, that life is easy, or that any of us are entitled to better. But please, isn't this the kind of thing you talk about in somber tones, in the afternoon, with some degree of hope and maybe even a handful of strategies?
Richard Siken
#36. If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone.
C.S. Lewis
#37. The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that there has been an injustice.
Alain De Botton
#38. Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#39. How we leave the world is more important than how we enter it.
Janette Oke
#40. The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.
Terence McKenna
#41. The world is going to change, by default, but if you wait for the world to change you, the change will not be for the better.
Phillip Hale
#42. The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.
Errol Morris
#44. Recent events lead me to believe the world is like that, too
people are the individual fragments, but we are also part of the whole mirror. We are connected, not only to one another but also to the fabric of the universe.
Wendy Mass
#45. Everyone has the gift of laughter inside of them. All the world is a prop.
Carrot Top
#46. I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people, writers, they write about 'Idol' all the time, and I guess I didn't expect that.
Nicki Minaj
#47. Because a person couldn't ever be good and evil at once.
Little girl, don't you know? The world is made up of shades of grey.
Rachel E. Carter
#48. If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.
Robert Crandall
#50. Much of the world is jealous of the United States. Many of the religious and political fanatics who ridicule and criticize the U.S., calling Americans "Satanists" and "imperialists," would fall head over heels for a green card, if they don't already have one.
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
#51. I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big
enough for different values to coexist.
Haruki Murakami
#52. The world is a grindstone and life is your nose
Fred Allen
#53. The thinnest thing in the world is the border between good and evil ... my next The Opposite Of Magic.
Ivan Stoikov
#54. The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.
Gautama Buddha
#55. A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities.
Terence McKenna
#56. It pisses me off, people are idiots, but what are you going to do? The world is full of idiots. That's why we'll never have flying cars. People don't know how to drive
Dustin Diamond
#57. People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing ... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality.
Neil Gaiman
#58. Once you realize that the imagination is non-fiction, the world is yours
Carl Henegan
#59. Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.
E.F. Schumacher
#60. In my opinion, if you really want to know, half of the nastiness in the world is stirred up by people who aren't using their true egos.
J.D. Salinger
#61. There are just lots of possibilities in the world ... I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.
Rachel Cohn
#62. All the world is a stage...and I have plenty of tomatoes.
Derek Fox
#63. Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
Bobby Fischer
#64. The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.
Mike Figgis
#65. Great art makes of a cosmos one simple droplet, by which the world is slaked of a thirst it never knew it had.
Aldous Richards
A.H. Richards
#66. Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.
Eric Hoffer
#67. You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.
Angelique Kidjo
#69. No one, no single center, can today command the world. No single group of countries can do it. Under the current U.S. president, I don't think we can fundamentally change the situation as it is developing now. It is dangerous. The world is experiencing a period of growing global disarray.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#70. The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.
Karl Kraus
#71. I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit.
Steve Jobs
#72. I read once that you get deja vu when the two halves of your brain process things at different speeds: the right half a few seconds before the left, or vice versa ... that would explain the weird double feeling that it leaves you with, like the world is splitting in half
or you are.
Lauren Oliver
#74. The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.
Francois Truffaut
#75. I can promise you that the world is a factory. The sun stirs it, the humans rule it. And I remain. I carry them away.- spoken by death
Markus Zusak
#76. Half the world is screaming for water and freedom when the other half is ordering cocktails and complaining about the service.
Edward Docx
#77. ... at four o'clock in the morning, when the world is full of magic, things may be safely said that may not be uttered at any other time, so long as the person who listens believes in the same kind of magic as the person who speaks.
Robin McKinley
#78. I thought it must be difficult for him, for boys. They get temperamental when they can't shape the world into what they want it to be. It's easier for girls. Girls are raised knowing that the world is unshapable. So they know better than to fuss.
Joshua Gaylord
#79. The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.
Ashly Lorenzana
#80. The world is not composed of religious and non-religious people. It is composed rather of religious people who have differing ultimate concerns, different gods, and who respond to the Living God in different ways.
Ronald H. Nash
#81. Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#82. The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
Pope John Paul II
#83. The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it ... when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any star. Venus, or Mars. Get hold of it and leave it empty. Man needs an empty space somewhere for his spirit to rest in.
Doris Lessing
#84. The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.
Roy L. Smith
#86. If the nature of the world is revealed to man through religion, then gardens, as places for contemplation, should symbolise the perfection of nature.
Tom Turner
#87. Don't try to be fancy. Shoot for the center of mass. The world is full of decent people. Criminals we can do without.
Jeff Cooper
#88. Perhaps all that is left of the world is a wasteland , covered with rubbish heaps, and the hanging garden of the Great Khan's palace. It is our eyelids that separate them, but we cannot know which is inside and which outside
Anonymous
#89. The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago.
Bill Gates
#91. The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.
Joyce Meyer
#92. I hope for better things, and I thank God the world is also full of people who want to be genuine and kind.
Audrey Hepburn
#93. The world is philosophically booby-trapped; touch an interesting subject, and it just might blow up in your face. Some say it's better not to touch.
Michael Leunig
#94. For me, the world is a stage, and we are all playing the character we have chosen to play on that stage. It is the job of the photographer to capture the drama of the performance.
Alix Smith
#95. I looked around at the smoke and people. I couldn't find any hate in me anywhere. The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up. I decided to love it anyway.
Vanessa Veselka
#96. The world is a world of tears, and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.
Robert Fagles
#97. The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.
Edward Abbey
#98. Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan
#99. The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed ... literary taste ... your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.
Arnold Bennett
#100. Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend; Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need, Or sin by silence when I should defend ... "The world is better that I lived to-day."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
