World Quotes

• 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

• We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.

  

  Angelina Grimke
  • World
  • Women

• No institutions in modern society are better equipped to catalyze the necessary transition to a sustainable world than colleges and universities. They have access to the leaders of tomorrow and the leaders of today. What they do matters to the wider public.

  

  David W. Orr
  • College
  • Tomorrow
  • Modern

• The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Summer
  • Moon
  • Hung

• When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • World
  • Conflict
  • Trance

• The world is one big data problem.

  

  Andrew McAfee
  • World
  • Problem
  • Data

• It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

  

  Charles Kettering
  • World

• I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Life
  • God
  • Thoughts

• I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Believe
  • Today
  • Evil

• The creative process is often wrapped up in bottomless anxiety, and when the world applauds the product of that process, it soothes the anxiety. Briefly. Then the anxiety returns and even intensifies.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Up
  • World
  • Anxiety

• There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • World
  • City
  • Dance

• My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Records
  • Complaints
  • Litany

• Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Opinion

• If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

  

  Alfred Edward Newton
  • Life
  • Home
  • True

• I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that there is a certain world order, has been consequential. It has empowered me to do things my way. I found an inner truth by which I abide.

  

  Shari Arison
  • Changed
  • Recognition
  • Empowered

• In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make. He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • World
  • Man
  • Choice

• The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

  

  Emmanuel Jal
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• So many women around the world in so many different career paths and places are expected to be perfect and I know that it sounds cliché, but none of us are.

  

  Gigi Hadid
  • Different
  • Perfect
  • Path

• My goal, for almost my entire career, has been to promote ski racing not just in America, but across the world. I think it's an amazing sport. I am happy to be an ambassador for the next Olympics and I will do my best to honour the Olympics spirit and to hopefully encourage kids to participate in sports, especially in Asia and Korea and I am looking forward to an amazing Olympics.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Kids
  • America
  • Happy

• Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.

  

  Yasmina Khadra
  • World
  • God
  • Earth

• You have to do what you want to do, and I genuinely believe that if you start interacting in the world that way that there is a respect in that.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • World
  • Believe
  • Respect

• The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • World
  • Ideas
  • Effects

• I was studying International Relations at Columbia when 9/11 happened, and it made me want understand the security dynamics of the world. I had been more focused on soft power issues - understanding different cultures and such - but once 9/11 happened, I felt like I didn't know anything about security problems.

  

  Ellen Gustafson
  • Different
  • Power
  • Understanding

• You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • People
  • Art
  • Plant

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