When The World Seems Against You Quotes

#1. Sometimes it seems like you and me against the world.

Helen Reddy

#2. Magic is something that seems like it goes against how the world works and its us magicians job to be doing that.

Jerry Andrus

#3. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't. And if that's what God's like, I wouldn't worry about it.

Haruki Murakami

#4. Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world ...

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

Margaret Sanger

#6. It seems people don't read or listen. Our scholars and our media have been very outspoken. We were the first country in the world to hold a national public awareness campaign against extremism and terrorism. Why would we not want to fight an ideology whose objective is to kill us?

Adel Al-Jubeir

#7. That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.

Vera Wang

#8. Just remember, sometimes people will put you ahead of themselves. It does happen. (Leta)
Yeah, the whole world is just rainbows and puppies. Boy Scouts really do help old ladies cross the street without mugging them and no one ever ignores a trauma victim's screams. (Aiden)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. It seems to be the easiest thing in the world these days to make scurrilous accusations against Muslims, and in my case it directly impacts on my relief work and damages my reputation as an artist. The harm done is often difficult to repair.

Cat Stevens

#10. A night of crying has silenced me. This morning it seems the whole world is against me. I've never before felt so barren, so empty. I've never before thought the daylight to be ... my enemy. My enemy.

Shaun Hick

#11. He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.

Harry Crews

#12. Domestic violence and violence against women in general seems to be a big problem everywhere in the world. It seems to me this problem comes from stress, pent up anger, frustration, and all kinds of negativity within human beings.

David Lynch

#13. Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes with a corresponding moral responsibility to use that power in ways that work to the benefit of all people and the whole of life.

David Korten

#14. They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back.

Art Blakey

#15. It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.

Zainab Salbi

#16. There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Josh Billings

#17. There are times for all of us when all the laughter seems to be gone, but we should not permit these periods to last too long. When we've lost our sense of humor, there isn't very much left. We become ridiculous. We must then go to war against the whole world, and that's a war we cannot win.

Earl Nightingale

#18. To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods. If these truths mean the world is less comforting than it might have been, it seems like a pretty small price to pay.

Mira Grant

#19. And what would I do ? Part of me was immobile, stunned with despair, like those rats that lose hope in laboratory experiments and lie down in the maze to starve.

Donna Tartt

#20. Sometimes, everything in the world seems to be lined up against you. All the evidence says you ought to run the other way. Make the bravest choice, not the safest. It's not the best advice, but it's all I have to offer

Linda Lael Miller

#21. If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail
and you eventually will if you stick to the job
they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.

Stephen King