World Most Quotes

#1. They please the world most, who please Christ least.

St. Jerome

#2. What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

E. M. Forster

#3. Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to heroic battles, archways of triumph. But peace has no parade, no pantheon of victory.

Kofi Annan

#4. Only that which lasts forever is real. That which is done in the temple lasts forever; therefore, the temple is the real world. Most of what we experience "out there," such as sickness, wealth, poverty, fame, etc., lasts for only a short period of time, so it is not the real world.

John H. Groberg

#5. In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.

Pliny The Elder

#6. The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

Emile Zola

#7. In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don't see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within fiction.

Emma Donoghue

#8. To the world, most people are not remembered for being great parents.
To the child, without parents, nothing great would have been put into the world.

J.R. Rim

#9. Russell Crowe as Capt. Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, .. most unlikely.

Peter Weir

#10. What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.

Yoko Ono

#11. Seek self before you venture to conquer the world. Most of what you are looking for is rooted inside you.

Eric Onyango Otieno

#12. As I'm sure you know by now, most people aren't really very happy. Beyond their surface appearances, the smiles they wear for the rest of the world, most people are soul-sick.

Frederick Lenz

#13. Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream.

Frederick Lenz

#14. What our world most requires now is the kind of education that foster love for humankind, that develops character-that provides an intellectual basis for realization of peace and empowers learners to contribute to and improve society.

Daisaku Ikeda

#15. People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

David Brinkley

#16. True love is the most rare thing in the world. Most people just pretend to love.

Debasish Mridha

#17. And it's true, thought Valentine. I'm not the same person, really, from book to book, because each world changes who I am, even as I write down the story of the world. And this world most of all.

Orson Scott Card

#18. As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.

Barry Commoner

#19. The more I see the world, most dislike, and the time confirms my belief in the inconsistency of human nature and how little can one trust the appearances of goodness or intelligence

Jane Austen

#20. The longer I spent time on 'The Daily Show,' standing in front of a green screen pretending to report from war zones and hot spots around the world - most often from somewhere in the Middle East - the more I began to realize that 'The Daily Show' was radicalizing me.

Aasif Mandvi

#21. As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.

Timothy Ferriss

#22. In the real, physical world or business world, most relationships are nonlinear.

Pearl Zhu

#23. They are so busy, Julia, trying to help the world that they've forgotten how to help themselves. They've forgotten how to be happy, and it is a happy man or woman who helps the world most.

Christopher Pike

#24. Soon the Laughing Man has amassed the largest personal fortune in the world. Most of it he contributed anonymously to the monks of a local monastery- humble ascetics who had dedicated their lives to raising German police dogs.

J.D. Salinger

#25. We are suffering a national defeat comparable to any lost military campaign, and what is more, it is self- inflicted? It is about time that we pulled our fingers out? The rest of the world most certainly does not owe us a living.

Prince Philip

#26. With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols of things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

#27. Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so short of ecstasy, of god-consciousness; it's almost pitiful.

Frederick Lenz

#28. The truth of the matter is that although not all Muslims are terrorists, unfortunately, in today's world, most of the terrorists - 99 per cent - are Muslim.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

#29. Evil has always existed, the perfect world most people seek shall never come to pass and it's gonna get worse.

Richard Ramirez

#30. Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.

Fabrice Grinda

#31. The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible Belt, nor in parts of the Islamic world). Most people are at ease with the idea that our present biosphere is the outcome of four billion years of Darwinian evolution.

Martin Rees

#32. He was ego-free, which was very rare in the design student world. Most design students had lots of ego and very little talent. Jony was the other way around.

Leander Kahney

#33. A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books ... Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had.

E.B. White

#34. Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.

James Agee

#35. There are things in this world most of us never see," I find myself saying. "We've trained ourselves not to see them, or try to pretend we didn't if we do. But there's a reason why, no matter how sophisticated or primitive, every religion has demons.

Andrew Pyper

#36. In today's world, most people are working side jobs while waiting to do what they really want to do.

Beth Behrs

#37. In this nominally freer and more equal world, most women end up doing more work, for less reward, and feeling pressured to conform more closely to gender norms.

Laurie Penny

#38. In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

Noam Chomsky

#39. Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.

E.B. White

#40. Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.

Jim Fowler

#41. In this stupid world, most people never consider that a thing is good to be done unless it is done by their own set.

George Eliot

#42. Stenchgator, the Great Unwiped Bum... was listed in the Bumper Book of Bums as the stinkiest bum in the world. Most bums only registered one or two points on the Rectum scale, but Stenchgator came in at a nose-bruising 9.8 points.

Griffiths, Andy

#43. We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice one curious fact about them, they all suffer, they all die, and sometimes those who are the nicest seem to suffer the most.

Frederick Lenz

#44. Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, predictable reason in the world. I met him in India, we fell in love, and we got married. And then, we got divorced. Sorry about that.

Deepa Mehta

#45. 2014 was a year of intense social upheaval. In truth, the same could be said for most every year. There is no standstill in a world filled with so many people, scrambling for so much.

Roxane Gay

#46. During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or other, from mainland Europe, and the solutions from outside it.

Margaret Thatcher

#47. I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!

Robbie Williams

#48. I've come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The one who never apologizes and therefore seeks no forgiveness. Because in the end it is our emotions that make us week, not our actions.

Tahereh Mafi

#49. 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

#50. When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#51. People tell us the countries that we'll have the most difficulty with are France and Japan. They say, 'Nothing you do in the rest of the world will work for us.' But that's changing. The differences are narrowing.

Joe Tripodi

#52. It's one of my favorite things to do, watch TV and stretch. I'm so flexible. I can put my legs behind my head. I want to be the most flexible person in the world.

Mo Rocca

#53. It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#54. You're the most experienced investigator I've got who's not tied up in something, and I can't ask the Consort to look look into it, because A) she and Curran are working on something else and B) when the Consort gets involved, half of the world blows up.

Ilona Andrews

#55. Granted, prostate exams aren't the most enjoyable things in the world, but they only last about 10 seconds. It's well worth it. Just think of the possible consequences if you don't get it done.

Len Dawson

#56. I think it's crucially important to be present in the lives of your children. They are my most important cause that I fight for. But I also feel an added responsibility that I want to leave them a better world than this one that we have now.

Tom Morello

#57. All the humor evaporates from his face and his honey-brown eyes. Within seconds he has me in his arms and he hugs me like I'm the most important thing in the world to him.

Jessica Sorensen

#58. The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any measure of civilised attainment, from Nobel prize-counts on down, the U.S. leads the world by miles.

Richard Dawkins

#59. I'm the most fluent liar in the world, I'm the coolest, the smoothest
'Rachel Abercrombie.'
A lie, Savich thought.

Catherine Coulter

#60. I'm just me. If I am sexy, it's just something I do naturally, like picking up a knife and fork to eat. I think people who try to be sexy are the most unsexy people in the world.

Sharon Tate

#61. Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.

Saadi

#62. Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all.

Bill Bryson

#63. The people in the United States are some of the most generous people in the world. We saw it in Haiti. We saw it with Katrina. When devastation strikes, American people want to step up.

Ertharin Cousin

#64. The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

Mika.

#65. The car is the most regulated thing in the world. It's more complicated to make a car than it is to send a rocket to space.

Henrik Fisker

#66. We had trench warfare in America way before World War I. Most people don't know that.

Donna Tartt

#67. You can have all the brains in the world, but it takes a body to get most men's attention.

Jillian Dodd

#68. The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.

Laozi

#69. People think I'm Snow White ... the most boring person in the world!

Andrea McLean

#70. One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things that are scientifically false. If someone tells me that the earth is less than 10,000 years old, in my opinion he should see a psychiatrist.

Francis Crick

#71. most powerful military in the world is sent to do a task best accomplished by schoolteachers, police forces, persuasion, and time.

Mohsin Hamid

#72. Identifying someone by his, or her, outward appearance is often the first and most common error in the world

Sunday Adelaja

#73. Rediscovering our own miraculousness is the most important, valuable, world-peacing, beauty-spreading, kind, and generous thing we can do.

Kelly Corbet

#74. In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.

Hans Kramers

#75. You can't change people. You know that. You can't make them stop hating each other, or longing to blow up the world, not by walking through the rain and singing to a small guitar. Most you can do for them is pull them out of the womb, thump them on the backside and let them get on with it.

John Mortimer

#76. Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little better than we found it.

Philip Slater

#77. The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things about him, even in his most secret innervations.

Theodor Adorno

#78. When the Eagle landed on the moon, I was speechless - overwhelmed, like most of the world. Couldn't say a word. I think all I said was, 'Wow! Jeez!' Not exactly immortal. Well, I was nothing if not human.

Walter Cronkite

#79. 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

#80. At any moment, one company stands in the spotlight of the middle ring in the stock market's never-ending circus. It may not be the biggest corporation in the world, or the most profitable, but somehow it both mirrors and leads the market's broader action.

Alex Berenson

#81. One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.

Haruki Murakami

#82. It was the reward of the loyal female disciples who had accompanied Jesus to the place of crucifixion and stayed with him through the horror of his execution, to be entrusted by him with the most powerful message that has ever impacted the world: 'He is risen.

Gilbert Bilezikian

#83. We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

P.D. James

#84. The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Bertrand Russell

#85. I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

Hugh Hefner

#86. Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.

Natan Sharansky

#87. A lot of the listeners don't realize that the Daytona 24 Hours is the most difficult race in the world. It's 24 hours, a lot of darkness because it's held at the end of January, so you're talking about 13-14 hours of darkness.

Scott Pruett

#88. My tattoos, like most people's, were reminders, badges of personal experiences. Yes, I might wear them on my skin for the world to see, but their meaning was a little too personal.

N.R. Walker

#89. I have lived to see the greatest plague on earth
the condemning of God's word, a fearful thing, surpassing all other plagues in the world; for thereupon most surely follow all manner of punishments, eternal and corporal.

Martin Luther

#90. TV is very much my first love. I love this world. It's where writers have the most creative control, and I just love that.

Melissa Rosenberg

#91. You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

Percy Ross

#92. Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

Adolf Hitler

#93. The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

Ben Bernanke

#94. Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

Orison Swett Marden

#95. Italian women are some of the most beautiful in the world. This is why the Vatican is in Italy. If a man can walk across Italy and retain his celibacy, he's got what it takes to be a priest - or an interior decorator.

Craig Ferguson

#96. Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

Albertus Magnus

#97. We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.

Faith Hill

#98. Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.

Gary Jennings

#99. The world seemed divided into girls with boyfriends and girls without them. It was the distinction that mattered the most, practically the only one that did matter. But I knew that boys were dangerous. They'd say they loved you, but they were always after something.

Jeannette Walls

#100. I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it's the most important thing in the world, and as if it's something that everyone should weigh on because it's important to me.

Billy Eichner