Top 100 World What Quotes
#1. The conversation of how you do a play is my favorite conversation in the whole wide world: what a play is, why it's different than anything else, the math of the way that human behavior has to be calibrated theatrically versus anything else.
Anna D. Shapiro
#2. There is much talk about the American Dream. I recall when the American Dream meant the opportunity to pursue your own goals, your own way. The politicians have perverted the dream to mean new homes and cars and a riskfree world. What happened to the real American Dream?
William B. Abernathy
#3. I get paid a lot of money to play a game with the greatest players in the world. What could be better than that?
Jim Edmonds
#4. Your turn Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn't do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do that.
Seth
#5. A kitten is, in the animal world, what a rosebud is in the garden.
Robert Sowthey
#6. Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
Uma Thurman
#7. What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#8. There's too much tension in the world ... what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can't make peace.
Megan McCafferty
#9. You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.
Patricia Briggs
#10. Walking along beside him that night, along that rutted road, through that empty world - what a sweet strength I felt, in him, and in myself, and all around us.
Marilynne Robinson
#11. You know what people are doing on the other side of the world, what's happening on another planet, but not what's going on inside the person next to you.
Graham Spaid
#12. If you had all the money and all the time in the world, what would you do?!
Deepak Chopra
#13. As you take leave of [your school], as you graduate into a new life of the mind, may each of you ask yourself this: What am I doing to increase the sum hope of the world? ... What am I doing to teach someone else what I have learned?
Arthur F. Burns
#14. When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.
Eve Ensler
#15. The biggest change in the government's behavior has been because of TV and its ability to show to the world what has happened in this community ... that's the biggest change. But without TV ... the separation between the government and the people would be much worse than it is.
Ice Cube
#16. This isn't normal. This isn't how normal people think.
Fuck off, world- what the hell is normal anyway?
Elizabeth Haynes
#17. Know God's Will? How Should I Live in This World? What Does It Mean to Be Born Again? Can I Be Sure I'm Saved? What Is Faith? What Can I Do with My Guilt? What Is the Trinity? What Is Baptism? Can I Have Joy in My Life? Who
R.C. Sproul
#18. The sense of the world must lie outside the world ... What we cannot speak about we must remain silent about ... What can be described can happen too, and what is excluded by the laws of causality cannot be described.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#19. You are a nomad, a wanderer - just like me. You roam the desert and I roam the world. What's the difference between us?
Linda Ruth Horowitz
#20. I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.
Henning Mankell
#21. I have three best friends in this world. What's surprising is that they also happen to be your (audience) three best friends. They are Bachpan (childhood), Jawani (Youth) and Budhapa (old age).
Kishore Kumar
#22. Educators need to know what happens in the world of the children with whom they work. They need to know the universe of their dreams, the language with which they skillfully defend themselves from the aggressiveness of their world, what they know independently of the school, and how they know it.
Paulo Freire
#23. A disciple: I am worried about human suffering all over the world. What is the solution?Spiritual leader: The solution to our miseries lie within central atom of our being, 'I'. Once this central atom transcends to 'WE', human sufferings can be resolved.
Santosh Kalwar
#24. Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
Thomas Carlyle
#25. What we make of people, and what we see in the mirror when we look at ourselves, depends on what we know of the world, what we believe to be possible, what memories we have, and whether our loyalties are to the past, the present or the future.
Theodore Zeldin
#27. Nevertheless, old stories, old rumors, and old picture books still seemed to have their own hold on the memory of the world. What
Terry Pratchett
#28. I've always said that L.A. is the city of America's future. It is to the world what London was in the 19th century and New York in the 20th because of the growth of the Pacific Rim countries. We're the portal to the emerging world.
Antonio Villaraigosa
#29. I don't get that, I mean, what's power? Let's say he suddenly becomes king of the world. What is he going to do with it that he can't do now? Is his food going to taste better? Is the weather going to be nicer? Will love feel better? I just don't understand that mentality.
Richard Paul Evans
#30. Along with Chesterton, I've had to take my place among those who acknowledge that we are what is wrong with the world. What is my snobbishness toward my childhood church, for instance, but an inverted form of the harsh judgment it showed me?
Philip Yancey
#31. I feel very strongly that we make decisions about what we're giving to the world, what we're withholding from the world, by virtue of what we put on our bodies.
Meryl Streep
#32. The stakes in my books tend to be kind of ridiculously high. In 'Kid vs. Squid,' the question is whether or not the California coast will be subsumed by the ocean in favor of the creation of a new Atlantis. In 'The Boy at the End of the World,' what's at stake is the survival of the human species.
Greg Van Eekhout
#33. You was in all sorts of places, huh?" "Yeah, I was. Saw the world." "What'd you think of it?" "Different languages, same shit.
Dennis Lehane
#34. Sit down and make a list of the answers to these two questions: Ask yourself, if money was no concern and you had all the time and money in the world, what would you do? If you would still do what you currently do, then you are in dharma, because you have passion for what you do
Deepak Chopra
#35. TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying deeds, and not words, are what count most.
Napoleon Hill
#36. What is your dream? To be the most famous man in the world? What a stupid dream you have! To conquer the whole world with an army? What a primitive dream you have! To earn millions of dollars? What a greedy dream you have! Question your dreams!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#37. Our egoism gains nothing from acts of love, but the world gains all the more. Esotericism tells us that love is to the world what the Sun is for outer life. No soul could thrive if love departed from the world. Love is the "moral" Sun of the world.
Rudolf Steiner
#38. I'm just trying to show the world what an imagination can do when it isn't strained by humanly limitations.
Lu Groblebe
#39. It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.
Ida B. Wells
#40. It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
Oprah Winfrey
#41. Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.
Chuck Palahniuk
#42. I am not unaware that I have the mindset, as contradictory as it may sound, to discover in the world what I am in fact looking for. Perhaps the best pictures are a seamless hybrid of discovery and construction.
Richard Misrach
#43. Public symbols matter. They are one of the ways we tell each other, and the world, what we honor.
Michael W. McConnell
#44. Instead of telling the world What it is supposed to do, Why don't you immediately do it yourself? In this way, I assure you, Your happiness will be surprisingly multiplied.
Sri Chinmoy
#45. It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.
M.C. Escher
#46. It only takes one line, from one poem to change your world...What has poetry done for you lately?
David S. Cross
#47. Life introduces us to the gentle, cosmic rhythms of an extraneous world. What is objective truth might exceed human capacity to ever fully perceive, comprehend, and explain.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#48. Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.
Edward Norton
#49. I think that I'm just the same, but there is sometimes that you just have to be real. You have to look in the mirror and be real with yourself and you have go: 'You know what? I am the best in the world. What is happening?'
Mickie James
#50. Learn of the green world what can be thy place
In scaled invention or true artistry
Ezra Pound
#51. She had no one in the world. Her whole world, what was left of it, was here, and there was no way to get back to where she had been before. The
Robert Goolrick
#52. The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
Saint Augustine
#53. We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
Warren Buffett
#54. As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind ... Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?
Nikolai Gogol
#55. I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)?
Isabel Allende
#56. 2012 has been an extraordinary year for our country. We cheered our Queen to the rafters with the Jubilee, showed the world what we're made of by staging the most spectacular Olympic and Paralympic Games ever and - let's not forget - punched way above our weight in the medals table.
David Cameron
#57. When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.
William J. Clinton
#58. While it's nice to appreciate the fashion world ... what makes you happy are real relationships and the moments you share with loved ones.
Miranda Kerr
#59. I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.
Ricky Martin
#60. What are the needs of the world? What can I do that won't be done if I don't do it?
William J. Clinton
#61. What is this world? What is it for? It is art. It is the best of all possible art, a finite picture of the Infinite.
N.D. Wilson
#62. I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#63. Twitter is a great place to tell the world what you're thinking before you've had a chance to think about it.
Chris Pirillo
#64. When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.
Nicole Richie
#65. If Isabelle Reagan can take a guy like me and turn him into someone worthy of respect then it's mind blowing to think what she can do for the rest of the world. What we could do for it together. We might be able to change it.
Melyssa Winchester
#66. Great Britain be proud, be blessed, be bold! Show the world what are you made of; show them you are made of gold not bronze. Be proud, be blessed,be bold!
Euginia Herlihy
#67. I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour
to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my
world.
Virginia Woolf
#68. Our attitude is the environment we carry with us during the day. It proclaims to the world what we think of ourselves and indicates the sort of person we have made up our minds to be. It is the person we will become. How's your attitude today?
Bob Proctor
#69. There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
Franz Kafka
#70. Sometimes love is not enough to bind us to the world. What is beautiful may also be finite.
Katie Ward
#71. I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.
Evel Knievel
#72. [William Eggleston] sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us.
Eudora Welty
#73. In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in fact a decisive benevolent dictator to push through the reforms required to get the economy moving
Dambisa Moyo
#74. What a world I've come up through, said Liir to himself. Oh, what a world, what a world.
Gregory Maguire
#75. You know, I believe that people need to find what they love to do most in the world, what they're best at, and then they need to use that ability to make the world better.
Jessica Warman
#76. If you ask anyone on any street corner in the world what the Soviet Union looks like, they would probably have very strong opinions. And they probably would be wrong.
Rick Smolan
#77. Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?
Lady Gaga
#78. For the first time you will have some real democracy in the world. What exists now as democracy is not democracy - it is mobocracy.
Osho
#79. We have a pretty ambitious goal for the world. What we think will make the Web better. What we think will make all these businesses that integrate with us run more effectively. I think if we stay focused on doing that, that's really the main thing that we need to do.
Mark Zuckerberg
#80. Think of it this way instead: I got better and I have a story and I want to tell the world what Jesus has done in my life because I want Jesus to be glorified. God may use counselors, medications, doctors, and all that, but it's Jesus who heals you.
Louie Giglio
#81. Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is.
Frederick Lenz
#82. We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.
George H. W. Bush
#83. What's yours? How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That's all you have to figure out.
Jim Carrey
#84. The world is only a mirror. You will only see in the world what you're prepared to see in yourself-nothing more and nothing less.
Robert Holden
#85. I set up a system, and the system can catch part of what is happening in the world - what's going on in the world - an appearance in the world, and suspend that appearance itself from being important ... The work is about the system.
Douglas Huebler
#86. I belly up a laugh from way down deep where I'm always half laughing anyway because being alive - dude! - it's the greatest adventure in the world. What a ride it's been. Short but stupendous.
Karen Marie Moning
#87. Founders need sizable egos to believe that what they are creating is good enough to change the world. What makes for great co-founders is having those egos focused on complementary, not competing, skills.
Jay Samit
#88. Isn't it time you came out and told the world what you believe?
Jason Alexander
#89. We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparent world.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#90. Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#91. To be a light in a child's world, what could be more beautiful?
Marty Rubin
#92. Wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.
Haruki Murakami
#93. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.
Gary Zukav
#94. Heaven was a lovely, unspoiled Earth-like world; what Earth might have been like if men had treated her with compassion instead of lust.
Joe Haldeman
#95. But sharing has its limits. It might make you famous, but chances are it won't earn you a buck. It might find you new people to connect with, but it won't make it any easier to click with them. And it might let you tell the world what's on your mind; but it won't make the world listen.
China Mieville
#96. Let everyone else travel all over the world. What they're searching for in Los Angeles and New York and everywhere else is something I already have right here in Seattle. I want it all to myself.
Maria Semple
#97. That was what should truly matter in this world. What you have to offer people, not what you can buy.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#98. We did not determine our fate into the world. What we know is we are here in the world.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#99. ALIF: Painting brings to life what the mind sees, as a feast for the eyes.
LAM: What the eye sees in the world enters the painting to the degree that it serves the mind.
MIM: Consequently, beauty is the eye discovering in our own world what the mind already knows.
Orhan Pamuk
#100. As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the world what you have and how proud you are of it, that's always fun.
Ricky Williams
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