Top 100 World How Quotes

#1. The next question is how? How does news find us?
What you need is a certain critical literacy about the fact that you are almost always subject to an algorithm. The most powerful thing in your world now is an algorithm about which you know nothing about.

Kelly McBride

#2. On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

Natan Sharansky

#3. Perhaps no one religion contains all the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together. Or perhaps the elves are right and there are no gods. But how can I know for sure?" - Pg 479 Brisingr

Christopher Paolini

#4. He [God] chooses not to intervene in the world. Why not? Because he figures he's done enough and the rest is up to us? Or he wouldn't know where to begin? Or because he's in awe of his own miracle? That's how I picture him, his mouth slightly agape, his eyes wide in disbelief.

Jon Cohen

#5. The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

David Attenborough

#6. Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like Alice through the looking-glass. I had no idea just how deep the rabbit hole would go.

Simon Pegg

#7. You think that because I want to do what's right, because I want to make things better, I'm weak," Claire said. "Or that I'm stupid. But I'm not. It takes a lot more strength to know how bad the world is and not want to be part of that, give in to it. And I do know, Kim. Believe me.

Rachel Caine

#8. To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day ... . I think it must be how it ought to be, in a perfect world.

Daphne Sheldrick

#9. How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves!

Anne Frank

#10. I am conscious of how my body signifies in every space. In every place of the world our body has a different significance.

Bocafloja

#11. So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts of the dead would be ever at hand.

Geraldine Brooks

#12. God says to me with a kind of smile, "Hey how would you like to be God awhile And steer the world?" ... "How much do I get? What time is lunch?" ... "Gimme back that wheel," says God. "I don't think you're quite ready yet."

Shel Silverstein

#13. You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?

Rebecca Wells

#14. If the veil of the world's machinery were lifted off, how much we would find is done in answer to the prayers of God's children.

Robert E. Murray

#15. Why should we remain innocent of what lurks in the shadows? How can we live in the world if we don't understand how dark and brutal it can be?

Penny Matthews

#16. I remember my first lecture on my first day in evolutionary biology, how populations and species change. I sat thinking, 'Why doesn't everyone know this?' I look back on it almost in horror: I came so close to not knowing how exciting our world is.

Elise Andrew

#17. How learned and fine we believed ourselves to be! How shitty of the world to deal with us this way.

Robert Stone

#18. Actually I was more of a breaker than a thrower - most of them putters. I broke so many of those that I probably became the world's foremost authority on how to putt without a putter.

Tommy Bolt

#19. It always amazed Vimes how Nobby got along with practically everyone. It must, he'd decided, have something to do with the common denominator. In the entire world of mathematics there could be no denominator as common as Nobby.

Terry Pratchett

#20. I don't know how to protect you. The world's fucked up, and I feel like we're cripples limping through it together.

Tam Linsey

#21. It's about you putting in the work, practicing every day, and hopefully one day you write the song the whole world wants to get down to. And one day you're going to be sitting next to Ellen DeGeneres talking about how you broke records and rocked the Super Bowl!

Bruno Mars

#22. There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.

Terri Windling

#23. How different would your world be if you looked in the mirror and saw your best friend looking back at you?

Janet Dunnagan

#24. A flash of anger made her turn back. When had he ever known the kind of vulnerability a woman must suffer, when left on her own to face the world? How could he know that a woman might seek any strategy to render herself ineligible, invisible?

Meredith Duran

#25. More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many times you've proven it to them.

Billy Corgan

#26. That whole generation that's gone now, that lived through the two world wars, is a great example to all of us. They knew how to live. If something bad happened, they didn't sit at home, eat Haagen-Dazs, and watch a movie.

Sigourney Weaver

#27. When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.

Camryn Manheim

#28. 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.

#29. Be what you are. Do what you love. Speak what you feel. Don't hide
your humanity. Celebrate it. Embrace it.
That is how you change the world.

Vironika Tugaleva

#30. My children have been all over the world, and I think it's so good for them: expanding their horizons and imagination and seeing how other people live.

Keeley Hawes

#31. It's not always about tomorrow and the day after that - what we achieve over the years and how we leave the world. Sometimes it's about today.

Carrie Ryan

#32. Okay, how's this? I've been to Heaven and Hell. I've seen the whole world, but the only thing that makes me want to live is this: being inside you. I love you so much. You're all I see.

Debra Anastasia

#33. Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.

Norman Vincent Peale

#34. In God's kingdom, humans get to reflect God at last into the world, in the way they were meant to. They become more fully what humans were meant to be. That is how God becomes king.

N. T. Wright

#35. I did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erected a barrier of words and wit around myself, so that nobody could see how needy I really was.

Karen Armstrong

#36. Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?

Jandy Nelson

#37. Okay - the world needs its cogs, all of them; and even a cog may say how it gets used. In fact, only a cog may determine its eventual meaning in the system. That's what I wanted to tell you.

Keigo Higashino

#38. My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

Rumi

#39. 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

#40. People always ask how there are female priests, but in this world there are.

Maggie Q

#41. About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.

Michael Caine

#42. How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

Winston S. Churchill

#43. I allowed social media to define what I thought of my body. And now I realize that no matter how thin you are, someone will call you fat. No matter how beautiful you are, someone will call you ugly. But you can't spend your time worrying about that. You're just not going to please the world.

Demi Lovato

#44. You're more responsible ethically for being there with your interconnection to the world, but the you now is an always changing one, and you're responsible for how you change it. It's very important to understand that whole thing about the ego.

Robert Thurman

#45. With love everything is bought, everything is saved. If even I, a sinful man, just like you, was moved to tenderness and felt pity for you, how much more will God be. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#46. I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.

Will Rogers

#47. He has forgotten how to laugh except in bitterness; there are no tears left in him. Unless he finds laughter and tears again, the world faces disaster. He

Robert Jordan

#48. Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about.

Seth Lloyd

#49. Just enough angry, just enough indignant,
just enough the-world-will-never-know-how-ridiculously-awesome-I-am. Just enough poet.

Rainbow Rowell

#50. We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.

Woodrow Wilson

#51. Diet cola is my absolute favorite drink in the world; I used to drink four cans a day. But to help me cut down, I've turned it into a treat. Now, instead of having dessert, I'll have a can of diet soda. Putting a limit on how often I can drink it has helped me appreciate it more.

Kaley Cuoco

#52. You won't believe how many people have congratulated me around the world for shooting a movie in 2D. It's bizarre. It's the strangest thing.

Joseph Kosinski

#53. If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.

Edward Young

#54. The beauty of a society is not just in the laws upon which the society revolves, but how the society regards, upholds and obeys the laws which set boundaries for a beautiful and a harmonious society!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#55. I pretty much believe, as everyone in the B Team does, that business must succeed beyond the bottom line. More important than profits is how you get to them. Measuring financial earnings and losses only is definitely not enough and has led us astray from creating a better world for all.

Guilherme Leal

#56. No matter how much you knelt and prayed, you still had to eat three meals a day and have a job and live in the world.

Sylvia Plath

#57. Everyone I know, men and women alike, would love to see the world changed so that boys and girls, men and women are valued equally for what we contribute, despite the differences in how our brains and bodies work.

Cris Mazza

#58. I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given.

Fred Rogers

#59. I was in shock. Funny how the world works. You don't get the something you really covet, but then the universe provides unexpected compensation. Here I thought you had to make a wish for it to come true.

Sarah Dessen

#60. Some people say that, as summer approaches, we start to have weird ideas; we feel smaller because we spend more time out in the open air, and that makes us aware of how large the world is. The horizon seems farther away, beyond the clouds and the walls of our house.

Paulo Coelho

#61. I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

Chris Hughes

#62. It sounds as if you are trapped in a cycle of thinking about yourself and how you don't belong in the world.

Dan Brown

#63. On the day the Gjallerhorn is blown, it will wake the gods, no matter where they are, no matter how deeply they sleep.

Heimdall will blow Gjallerhorn only once, at the end of all things, Ragnarok.

Neil Gaiman

#64. This is about how you relate to the world,' C said.

'Maybe it's about how the world relates to me,' I said back.

Alexandra Kleeman

#65. Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.

Nathan Myhrvold

#66. If you understand how the real world feels and looks and sounds it is much easier to create a virtual version of the real world.

John Dykstra

#67. I don't care how inventive you are; once you introduce strings into the ensemble for a horror film, you're entering into a world where a tradition has been thoroughly established. So it's repeated use over the years is like, 'Oh God, another film with strings, another spooky movie with strings.'

Christopher Young

#68. It doesn't matter how much you make, what matters is what you become. Stay hungry.. Learn.. you'll become world-class

Azim Jamal

#69. I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

Herbert Simon

#70. The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

Anne Sullivan

#71. The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending.

Jodi Picoult

#72. Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have some cake! You need to create a world into which we can enter, a world where we can see this.

Anne Lamott

#73. No matter how much a man may study, reflect and meditate on all the books in the world, he is nothing more than a minor scribe unless he has read the great book.

Denis Diderot

#74. And these [pharmaceutical] companies are still threatening to sue. And it's like, you know, do you not have a conscience? Do you not want the world to be a better place? You're still making a profit. How much more of a profit do you want to make?

Elton John

#75. Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring.

Herman Melville

#76. That is why the discipline of managing mental models - surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works - promises to be a major breakthrough for building learning organizations.

Peter M. Senge

#77. That's the biggest shame there is, that L.A. doesn't have a team. I was a big fan of the L.A. Rams, and when they left, I lost interest. Then there was the Raiders, and they left. How they can't have a football team in the biggest market in the world is beyond me.

Eric Braeden

#78. Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media and make the right moves that will help them. The physical world is similar to the virtual world in many cases. It's about being aware. We can prevent many debacles if we're educated.

Amy Jo Martin

#79. But how reassuring it was for us, you remember, every now and then ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"), to vibrate to the music of the very heartstrings of the Leader of the Free World who, to qualify convincingly as such, had after all to feel a total commitment to the Free World.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#80. What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.

Robert E.Lee

#81. So, I thought, this is how dead people see the world.

Rick Yancey

#82. I' have not had to borrow or beg for years. This world is indeed all yours. If you know how to 'see', if you know how to view the world, if you know how to understand the world, then the world is truly all yours. You are truly the Owner.

Dada Bhagwan

#83. How can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

Amy Tan

#84. How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capital building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?

John Allen Paulos

#85. No insistence in the Scripture is more pressing than that we must pray ... How clear it is, when the Bible is consulted, that the almighty God is brought directly into the things of this world by the prayers of His people.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#86. The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.

Jock Sturges

#87. They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.

Libba Bray

#88. It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.

Bernie Siegel

#89. Whether we're conscious of it or not, our work and personal lives are made up of daily rituals, including when we eat our meals, how we shower or groom, or how we approach our daily descent into the digital world of email communication.

Chip Conley

#90. We have recognized that the world is changing. How your children are behaving, how their friends are behaving. What they consume and what they watch.

James Packer

#91. Then I remembered that I had yet to learn, if I ever was to learn, how strongly people in love could feel. In any event, I was the last person in the world to judge anyone as foolishly impulsive, for this was my own greatest fault.

Madeleine Brent

#92. It's terrifying to realize how much of your world is wrapped around loving another person.

Jessi Kirby

#93. People are worried about their bodies. They're worried about disease. They're worried about how they are able to get out and participate in the world.

John Scalzi

#94. I asked Elsie how much food they needed from outside the community. 'Flour and sugar,' she said, and then thought a bit. 'Sometimes we'll buy pretzels as a splurge.'
It crossed my mind that the world's most efficient psychological evaluation would have just one question: Define splurge.

Barbara Kingsolver

#95. It's amazing how one question can be so hard to articulate, and how the whole world can seem to hang on the answer.

Jessiqua Wittman

#96. One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have come to expect so little from the world and from themselves.

Barack Obama

#97. When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.

Matt Chandler

#98. We are vastly more powerful than we think we are. With a little support from flowers, we can recognize how deeply we affect others with our own energy and presence. We can cultivate a sharper awareness of our impact in the world.

Katie Hess

#99. I've always liked the fact that anyone with a great idea, access to the Internet, and an unrelenting will can spark a world-beating company simply by standing up code on the Internet and/or leveraging the information and relationship network that is the web. That's how Facebook started, after all.

John Battelle

#100. I know most sisters don't get along, but I'm closer to Margot than I am to anybody in the world. How can we be the Song girls without Margot?

Jenny Han

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