Top 100 World Would Quotes
#1. There seemed to be some inner need in many people to believe that the world would end in some cataclysmic event. Usually in the very near future.
Terry Goodkind
#3. Do you love her?' she asked him.
'Always have,' he said.
'Then why in the world would you leave her alone?
Suzanne Palmieri
#4. Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.
Alan W. Watts
#5. The world would find them anyway. It was good at these kinds of games.
Brandon Sanderson
#6. The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean.
Laird Hamilton
#7. It's a funny thing, friendship. One minute a person is driving you crazy, making you want to shake them, and the next minute you realize what a crappy place the world would be without them in it.
Natasha Friend
#8. If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole World would be clean.
Mother Teresa
#9. The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.
Timothy Noah
#10. If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. When I was 20, 21 years old, I had just got married. Put yourself in my wife's shoes. All of these fans all across the world would have Donny Osmond burning - record-burning parties. They would put my albums and burn them.
Donny Osmond
#12. You cannot leave me. The world would never survive my wrath.
Jocelynn Drake
#13. I rose up on my toes and brushed my lips to his. "No one in the world would believe how sweet you are."
He ran his finger along my jaw. "That should stay between us.
Lisa Kessler
#14. You stupid woman, if rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!
Tom Stoppard
#15. It's like ... I don't see in color anymore, you know? I look at something and I think I know what it looks like, and then I think about what the world would look like without Deacon, and it goes to black and white.
Amy Lane
#16. No company in the world would be satisfied with less sales, less customers or less jobs just because it's supposed to be good for the environment.
Karl-Johan Persson
#17. I'm a child of the Cold War. You do not say, "Oh, my God, there are Russian planes, so I'm going to cede the field." I mean, what kind of world would we have had if the United States had done that for 60 years?
Anne-Marie Slaughter
#18. Any act would be forgiven him, but the act itself would remain; what he would leave in the world would be the shame and hurt he forced upon others. This could not be.
David Kirk
#19. [Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.
Winston Churchill
#20. Be kind, don't judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.
Jasmine Guinness
#21. If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.
Charles Kingsley
#22. Darlin', if we only married who we deserved, then the world would be filled with single women, an older woman said.
Susan Mallery
#23. If most people owned up to their own insanity maybe the rest of the world would be diagnosed with sanity and we would lock them up for not fitting into our society.
Thatcher C. Nalley
#24. If you were starving and had all the time in the world, would you stop eating the greatest slice of cake on earth halfway through? Then why would you quit on your dreams?
Gregor Collins
#25. Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.
John Boyne
#26. If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Aristotle Onassis
#27. But nothing really clicked for me until I gave up completely on hitting the overlap and just did what I loved, even when I thought nobody else in the world would be interested.
Steven Pressfield
#28. Few of us can actually change the world. We can only change ourselves. But if enough people took that to heart, the world would change.
Tammara Webber
#30. "Tell me, sir, what is a butterfly?"
"It's what you are meant to become. It flies with beautiful wings and joins the earth to heaven. It drinks only nectar from the flowers and carries the seeds of love from one flower to another. Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers.
Trina Paulus
#31. But at least this got Mouth thinking about how his loneliness wasn't unique. We all suffered. And I guess we all had good times too. Man - if every person who ever felt lonely killed himself, the world would be littered with corpses. And far lonelier.
David Lubar
#32. I glanced at Aphrodite, who sat next to Hera and could have easily graced the front cover of every magazine and newspaper in the world ever. Hell, Gardeners World would have put her on the cover to sell a few copies.
Steve McHugh
#33. The world would be a sadder place without stories.
David Gemmell
#34. These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens, and they want us to leave ... I think the world would be better off if we did leave ...
George W. Bush
#35. You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?
John McGraw
#36. The world would be a real mess if everybody was a genius. Somebody's got to keep watch, take care of business.
Haruki Murakami
#37. If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I could never do business, seek employment or take part in public affairs outside that community.
S.I. Hayakawa
#38. Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.
Garry Kasparov
#39. He reached for a tabletop and ran his hands over it, clutching the edge until his knuckles turned white.
He wanted to know that it was solid. Eddis knew that all the world would seem to him insubstantial, as if it might tear away and reveal something else infinitely larger and more terrifying.
Megan Whalen Turner
#40. Quite amazing, isn't it, Mister Lipwig?' he said cheerfully through the smoke. 'Though isn't it a pity that they can only run on rails? I can't imagine what the world would be like if everyone had their own steam locomotive. Abominable.
Terry Pratchett
#41. If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open.
Odette Annable
#42. I had written all I was going to write, if the truth had been known, and there is nothing wrong with that. If more writers knew that, the world would be saved a lot of bad books, and more people
men and women alike
could go on to happier, more productive lives.
Richard Ford
#43. The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.
Irving Berlin
#44. Perspective is a tool used far too infrequently. If people had the courage to alternate their lens every now and then, the world would be a far more beautiful place.
Alyson Richman
#45. The best way to eliminate all suffering in the world would be to eliminate all sentient life. If there were no living things capable of feeling pain, then there would be no pain.
Nigel Warburton
#46. It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#47. We are chasing happiness, and don't care about happiness of people who matter. Probably, we got our priorities right, but failed to set an order.
We created a chaos hoping the world would fall in place itself..
Crestless Wave
#48. No matter how much time we spent together, parts of my world would always be as alien to him as parts of his were to me. That was oddly comforting, and gave me the strength I needed to do what had to be done. "You?
Seanan McGuire
#49. If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron or Shelley. The voices that thrill the world would now be silent.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#50. If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian.
Mahatma Gandhi
#51. None of that seemed real, but the world would certainly be cooler with something so unreal in it.
Holly Black
#52. Just about everything in this life is treacherous, ready to twist and shape-shift at any second; it seemed to me that the whole world would be a different place if you had someone you were certain of, certain to the bone, or if you could be that to someone else.
Tana French
#53. But nothing comes free of charge; the world would tumble into chaos without that kind of balance...
Ramona Wray
#54. He looked down at her and realized how lovely she was and how difficult it would be to tear himself away. But the world beyond the window was even more beautiful. And if he was leaving a beloved woman for its sake, then that world would be even more enhanced by the price of a betrayed love.
Milan Kundera
#55. Who's to know what makes a bird wake up and decide to change its song? It was written that our world would change and it changed.
Eliot Pattison
#56. We were all too good at pretending to be normal, like the world would end if anyone realized who we actually were inside--
Jung Yun
#57. I do know what my first meal in the next world would be ... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.
Rachael Ray
#58. The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.
John Lubbock
#59. If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.
Nicolas Berggruen
#60. No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it were otherwise the whole world would pray continuously.
E. O. Wilson
#61. If everyone could almost die, the world would be a happier, more thankful place.
Terry Lynn Johnson
#62. Where in the world would a star be without the love of the sky?
Munia Khan
#63. No professional Wall Street tipster or plausible promoter can turn a sane person into a stock gambler as easily as his next-door neighbor bragging about his winnings. If all men profited by experience, the world would be peopled exclusively by the wise....
Kenneth L. Fisher
#64. If everybody can be happy with what they achieve with their life, this world would be a better place.
Angelique Kidjo
#65. Just always be honest about your feelings. If everyone did that then the world would be a much simpler place.
Kiki Archer
#66. He would not lose her. If he did, this world would witness his rage and need to send him to his grave to stop it.
Annie Nicholas
#67. Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue.
Neil Tennant
#68. Great Work begins when we take the time to ask if there's something new the world would love.
David Sturt
#69. If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now!
George MacDonald
#71. There's one relationship in your life - in everyone's life - that has been kept a secret. You don't know when it began, and yet you depend upon it for everything. If this relationship ever ended, the world would disappear in a puff of smoke. This is your relationship to reality. A
Deepak Chopra
#72. The world thinks peace would come if everyone made a lot of money, but people haven't found peace in possessions. They have thought the world would have peace if all arms were destroyed. Yet Cain killed Abel without a handgun. It is man's heart that is the problem.
Billy Graham
#73. I am just wondering how this world would be if everyone done their job competently and efficiently. I am so tired of imbeciles. I do believe their function on this earth is to torment those who have common sense.
Patricia H. Graham
#74. I got to thinking that the world would be a better place if they gave medals to great teachers rather than just soldiers who kill their enemies in wars.
Matthew Quick
#75. Imagine knowing that you're good at something, so good that the world would be in awe of you if they could see your work, and then keeping yourself a secret from the world.
Paul Auster
#76. The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid.
Arsene Wenger
#77. I would say the world's in terrible shape, but I'm afraid the world would say, 'Look who's talking!'
Cass Elliot
#78. Think about how much better this world would be if people would just smile at each other more often ... You don't have to talk; you don't have to agree on anything; all you have to do is smile! Smiling breaks barriers; it eases tension, and it's the first step to making a new friend.
Tom Giaquinto
#79. I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.
Marjane Satrapi
#80. A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.
Denton Cooley
#81. What did you have the potential to do? And if you came close to that, if you maximized that, then you were a success in God's eyes. So many of us do things that the world would say is successful, but we have so much more potential.
Tony Dungy
#82. When I was teaching children I began every day writing this on the blackboard: "Do to others what you would like them to do to you", telling them how much better the world would be if everybody lived by this rule.
Common
#83. The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.
Marcus Sakey
#84. My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.
Jim Butcher
#85. Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
William Penn
#86. All of us have a story like that one - some of us more than one. It's part of life and learning. Why, if babies stopped trying to walk the first time they fell down, the whole world would be full of people who crawled.
Debbie Viguie
#87. If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
John F. Kennedy
#88. Start looking around you ... and all you see are people the world would be better off without.
Tsugumi Ohba
#89. Perhaps the future of the world would be in better hands if we forgot about discovering something new and concentrated on recovering our past.
Marlo Morgan
#91. That's what it means to be in love, Marin. It means doing everything in your power to ensure that the one you love lives to see another day, because the world would be that much darker without them.
Aida Jacobs
#92. I admire independence. The world would be a stronger place if we were all capable of handling life on our own. But being capable of it doesn't mean being unable to share and depend on someone else. It shouldn't mean being unwilling to. That's the romance.
Nora Roberts
#93. If wishes were grains of sand, the world would be a desert.
Palle Oswald
#94. I never did learn how to live in the moment, but I did learn that moments could be wasted and the world would continue to spin on its axis.
Eloisa James
#95. The greatest gift of all time is that you can make creation infectious because people spend less time being negative ... If you log all the time with negativity in the while world, I wonder how much better the world would be if people sat down and did something positive. It spirals.
Skrillex
#96. An infant's smile was the greatest promise that the world would go on, no matter how much the grown-ups mucked around with it.
Janice Maynard
#97. The world, full of past sound, would be like the sky, full of past light. The world would be like the mind, for which there is no once.
Amy Leach
#98. But Iluvatar knew that Men, being set amid the turmoils of the powers of the world, would stray often, and would not use their gifts in harmony
J.R.R. Tolkien
#99. I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
Jeff Kinney
#100. What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.
Muriel Rukeyser
