World Quotes

• Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • Different
  • Rest
  • Beginning

• Death, the greatest democracy of them all. The world's oldest complaint. Happens to us all. Rich and poor. Fat and thin. Fathers and daughters. Mothers and sons.

  

  Colum McCann
  • World
  • Death
  • Democracy

• It's a completely different universe. We're safer today, but the world in which we live is more complex.

  

  Anne McLellan
  • World
  • Universe
  • Complex

• Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.

  

  bell hooks
  • People
  • World

• I should have kissed more than your hand...thought I'd have more time," he whispered between liquid, panting breaths. "...too late now." I looked into his eyes and completely forgot the rest of the world. In that moment, all I knew was that I was holding Stark in my arms, and I was going to lose him very, very soon.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Time
  • Eyes
  • Hand

• The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Reality
  • Peace
  • Kindness

• This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,--This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • War
  • House

• Globalization and technical change are the guarantee of our future prosperity. And reversing on that will not only make things worse, but it will make things worse for a very large number of people around the world who have benefitted - people in China and India who have been dragged out of the most awful poverty.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • People
  • Future
  • Poverty

• New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

  

  David Letterman
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• People need to work on what self-love is and redefining self-love... it comes from within: who you are and how you carry yourself in this world.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• If you want to change the world, first try to improve and bring about change within yourself. That will help change your family. From there it just gets bigger and bigger. Everything we do has some effect, some impact.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Help

• It is time to recognise that austerity alone condemns not just Greece but the whole of Europe to the probability of a painful and protracted era of little or no economic growth. This would be a tragedy not just for Greece and for Europe, but for the world.

  

  Charles Dallara
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Growth

• On the third day after Jesus' own death, He came out of the grave to give the world a sign it cannot deny. For a man to predict His own death and resurrection was something only God could do.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Men
  • Death

• Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • God
  • Ignorance
  • Arrogance

• Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • World
  • Books

• No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was no better. The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Great
  • Wish

• The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • World

• The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)” (p. 3).

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Food
  • Light
  • Broken

• I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup.

  

  Jeremy London
  • Up
  • World

• The exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality but to a shadow world of symbols, beneath which those methods are unadapted for penetrating.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Reality
  • Science
  • Shadow

• Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.

  

  Peter Mullan
  • World
  • Why
  • Movie

• I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.

  

  Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
  • World
  • Natural
  • Admire

• A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Bad
  • True

• The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.

  

  Bruce Feirstein
  • Up
  • Great
  • Thinking

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