Top 100 World Being Quotes
#1. There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them any more.
Russell Hoban
#2. The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.
Francis Atterbury
#3. A paranoiac, my friend, is a person who has gone crazy in the most intelligent, well-informed way, the world being what it is. The paranoiac believes that great secret conspiracies are afoot to destroy him.
Philip K. Dick
#4. The friend who cares makes it clear that whatever happens in the external world, being present to each other is what really matters. In fact, it matters more than pain, illness, or even death.
Henri Nouwen
#5. The social world being the realm of nullity, there exist between the merits of women in society only insignificant degrees,
Marcel Proust
#6. There are two most important things in the world - being in danger, and being saved.
Ava Dellaira
#7. It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.
Kerri Walsh
#8. Ultimately, making movies is a really, really small world. Being on sets and going to the same locations, like shooting in Shreveport, you're always working with somebody from another set that you worked with.
Taylor Handley
#9. Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.
Dean Rusk
#10. Then, like a shimmering disk too rich and clear to be described, the sun slipped over the horizon and lined everything with gold. It was like seeing the world being born, and we were the sole witnesses.
Sarah J. Maas
#11. Then we realized that your Kind like to make laws. Like to decree what's what, and whether it's good or not. And the world, being a loving thing, and not wishing to disappoint you or distress you, indulges you. Behaves as though your doctrines are in some way absolute.
Clive Barker
#12. Two movements in human life are important: (a) deep reluctance to let loose of a world that has passed away, and (b) capacity to embrace a new world being given.
Walter Brueggemann
#13. The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.
William Butler Yeats
#14. There's three things I've seen in this world that seem to make a body happy or miserable. It's no money or health or any of those other things most people talk about. It's knowing where you fit in this world, being able to go after your dreams, and love.
Patricia McLinn
#15. Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality."
Paulo Coelho
#16. Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.
James Lovelock
#17. Humankind's compulsion has always been to master the meaning of their world. Through the ages humans have time and again tried to proclaim the nature of existence. Yet the sun has continued to shine on an enigmatic world, with the most imponderable aspect of that world being humans themselves.
Stephen R. Harrison
#18. Basically, I want people to feel feelings. It's too easy to go through this world being told to keep our emotions in check, as if they inhibit us in some way or another.
Hannah Fidell
#19. I'm a novelist: I spend a great part of my day pretending to myself that I'm in a different world, being a different person, faced with decisions I pretend I haven't created.
Nick Harkaway
#20. the bees were on good terms with the unseen world, being the messengers to the dead. She
Margaret Atwood
#21. I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.
Faith Ringgold
#22. But she looks at me with this total incomprehension, like she's watching footage of the world being blown up, and I'm the little blurb on the corner of the screen saying what the weather is like outside.
Rachel Cohn
#23. But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born.
Thor Heyerdahl
#24. No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
Alan Alda
#25. I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!
Andy Taylor
#26. That everything that happens can be converted to good. We simply do not know the good of it, our world being so vast and wide and us but a small part in it
Jane Kirkpatrick
#27. The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather from it.
James Madison
#28. Not out of them are the shows of history erected: the world would be a grey, bloodless place were it composed entirely of Miss Schlegels. But the world being what it is, perhaps they shine out in it like stars.
E. M. Forster
#29. It is a rare high school teacher who enjoys seeing their world being enormously improved upon by youths.
David James Duncan
#30. In the heroic effort of the individual to attain universality, in the attempt to transcend the curse of individuation and to become the one world-being, he suffers in his own person the primordial contradiction that is concealed in things, which means that he commits sacrilege and suffers.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#31. The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.
Bud Selig
#32. For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.
Robin Morgan
#33. You want to do something about it - take action, scream at them, tell them they're idiots - but you can't. Being on the fringe is the most disempowering feeling. You get so used to the world being a certain way, there seems to be no escape from it.
Jodi Picoult
#34. Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
Thomas Carlyle
#35. Who the hell would consider being the female equivalent of Justin Bieber a curse? If you're whining about the world being your stage and every male on it your thirteen-year-old fan girl, then my sympathy level just dropped exponentially.
Adrianne Brooks
#36. That sense of the world being the lack of something dogged him for years, and when it stopped dogging him, he felt unmoored.
Sandra Newman
#37. The animal world being altogether external to the scheme of redemption, was regarded as beyond the range of duty, and the belief that we have any kind of obligation to its members has never been inculcated - has never, I believe, been even admitted - by Catholic theologians.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
#38. It had to be one of the worst hurts in the entire world - being embarrassed by someone who was meant to protect you, not humiliate you
Mia Sheridan
#39. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces. - Nick
Rachel Cohn
#40. I have no plans to call on you, Clarice, the world being more interesting with you in it.
Thomas Harris
#41. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else ... But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists.
John Green
#43. His eyes shone with an anguish Clara understood well. Loss, horrible loss. Pain and anger, and the world being pulled out from beneath one's feet.
Claire Legrand
#44. I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.
George McGovern
#45. The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.
Saint Augustine
#46. I see the potential for a new world being born in front of me and all around me, and I feel the only way to bring that potential into being is to know myself.
Gary Zukav
#47. Personally I kept my feelings out of it and created a fantasy. That's the process of going through this world being beautiful.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#48. I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.
Alejo Carpentier
#49. I come from a land where the idea of the whole world being one family is rooted in our ethos 'vasudhaiva kutumbakam'.
Narendra Modi
#50. In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it.
Daniel Waters
#51. But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.
Marilyn Monroe
#52. If you simply put your faith in Jesus coming down in flesh, through a human being, God becoming flesh living on the earth, dying on the cross for the sins of the world, being buried, and being raised from the dead - yours and mine and everybody else's problems will be solved.
Phil Robertson
#53. [T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.
James Gunn
#54. We're not really indigenous to this world, this world being a temporal plane of reality.
Frederick Lenz
#55. Know the white, But keep the black, Be an example to the world! Being an example to the world, Ever true and unwavering, Return to the infinite.
Laozi
#56. I feel a little whirl of dislocation
the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected
Robin Sloan
#57. My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human.
Santosh Kalwar
#58. There are five signs of righteousness: a gentle disposition and a soft heart, shedding tears of regret, ascetism and not caring about the world, being unambitious, and having a conscience.
Shaqiq Al-Balkhi
#59. Charlotte sighed inwardly. She knew her mother was serious when she started referring to shellfish. What did that mean, anyway? What's so great about the world being your oyster? Does that mean it's really hard to open, and when you do, you have something slimy and gross on the inside?
Anne Ursu
#60. The battle against the devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the devil is still alive and active in the world.
Pope John Paul II
#61. There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.
Tracy Chapman
#62. By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.
Maajid Nawaz
#63. If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
P.C. Cast
#64. Being president of the United States is the most stressful, thankless job in the world and Margaret can't fathom why anyone would voluntarily pursue it.
Elin Hilderbrand
#65. Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#66. Being in front of an audience makes me feel alive. Being with friends makes me feel alive. I've done some crazy stuff in my time and yet I can feel infinitely alive curled up on a sofa reading a book. So, what makes me feel alive? I guess it's realizing I am part of the world around me.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#67. Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
E. Stanley Jones
#68. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in Russia, unlike in one third of the world's countries, being gay is not a crime.
Vladimir Putin
#69. The first time I was pregnant, Kanye and I were dating, and I was just being introduced to the world of fashion. I wanted to work with a bunch of different stylists, and when you work with a new stylist, everyone wants to possess your look.
Kim Kardashian
#70. The Blu-ray is the real cinematech of world cinema. That's how it's being preserved. All of these guys that are trying to preserve 35mm negatives? They are wasting their time. There are better ways to see and project this stuff. It's called digital.
William Friedkin
#71. In our technology-crazed world, we've confused being communicative with feeling connected.
Brene Brown
#72. The named was born from the unnamed ... all being flows from non-being ... the describable world emanates from an indescribable source.
Laozi
#73. The magnificent cause of being,
The imagination, the one reality
In this imagined world ...
Wallace Stevens
#74. Adiation ... the biggest lobby ... in the world. It's involved in university research ... industries ... the whole medical profession.., the whole military establishment, and the economic and military policy of the country depends on people being willing to handle radio-active materials.
Rosalie Bertell
#75. The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine - vulnerability and strength - is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are.
RuPaul
#76. Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself known to himself from the other side of the world and he looks from the horizon
toward himself to recover his inner being.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#77. I'm a sucker for entertainment and escapism as much as the next person. I like silly and lowbrow stuff, but I get nervous when I indulge in that too often. I want to know what's going on in the world. I have a morbid fear of being surprised by bad news. I want to anticipate everything.
Martin Donovan
#78. Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#79. To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin's terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.
Rebecca Solnit
#80. Both my parents were working-class and had dreams of making the world a better place. It's pretty powerful, being able to reflect back their beliefs.
Neneh Cherry
#81. Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides and causing tyrants to tremble, may America awake from the apathy in which she has long slumbered.
James Forten
#82. Sometimes, we find ourselves as conservatives being angry when we should be joyful, finding ourselves being negative when we should be positive, because we have a positive message to send ... We ought to be the most compassionate people in the world.
Kevin Cramer
#83. I feel there are so many things in this world that have been and are being created that I could spend the rest of my life thinking about, and I couldn't cover all the things I'm interested in. That to me is what makes life sweet-learning and exploring.
James Franco
#84. You survived in his world by being the best of the worst and there was no doubt in my mind that was exactly what Bax was
Jay Crownover
#85. In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life.
Julius Erving
#86. My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there are unused resources ... people having skills which are not being used.
Milton Friedman
#87. I definitely write about a lot of dreamy, surreal stuff. I do end up going to a surreal world with my music, but I also like the idea of there being really real stuff as well.
Ellie Goulding
#88. A person's work allows their character to form and provides a creative outlet for their inner world of imaginative thoughts and creative impulses. A person whom fails to find suitable work that allows their soul room to grow will quickly begin eroding into a withered and desiccated being.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#89. From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.
Justin Sane
#90. It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.
Bob Keeshan
#91. When it is recognized that there is nothing beyond what is seen of the mind itself, the discrimination of being and non-being ceases and, as there is thus no external world as the object of perception, nothing remains but the solitude of Reality.
Jack Kerouac
#92. When the world decides to stop being greedy ... there will be a harvest for the world! Amen.
Jess Glynne
#93. As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)
Quentin Crisp
#94. About their wedding on a beach of Nantucket, after nearly 50 years together as a couple: "After years of being who we truly were only in the privacy of our homes or with a few friends, we were out in the world, under the sky, no longer pretending." - Norman Sunshine, co-author, Double Life
Norman Sunshine
#95. We can hardly pride ourselves on being the world's preeminent democracy, after all, if the large numbers of citizens spend half their waking hours in what amounts, in plain terms, to a dictatorship.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#96. I think a lot of what I've done is about people feeling as if they are part of the world but also not part of it at the same time. I don't know whether that's from being a gay kid, but I definitely think that resonates with me.
Greg Berlanti
#97. Surrounding every technology are institutions whose organization - not to mention their reason for being - reflects the world-view promoted by the technology.
Neil Postman
#98. I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world.
Sebastiao Salgado
#99. You don't have to go through your life being a dumbnuts. Relax a little. You don't have to be responsible for the whole world. The earth was in orbit when we got here, and it will be here when we leave. - Erin
Sierra Cartwright
#100. The motivation for love in the world is selfishness, but the motivation for God's love is the well-being of others
Sunday Adelaja
