World Quotes
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I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.
John Crowley
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My dream is to make families a place where adults with high self esteem can develop. I think we have reached a point where if we don't get busy on dreams of this sort, our end is in sight. We need a world that is as good for human beings as it is for technology.
Virginia Satir
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Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Our users are trapeze artists, high school football coaches - I got cornered by a couple of theoretical physicists who said Dropbox lets them collaborate across the world and share their experiments' results. They were raving about how it's driving their research.
Drew Houston
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God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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I do find that when I see women who flesh out the television or film world and make it look more like the world I actually live in, I gravitate towards those characters.
Allison Tolman
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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
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I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?
Rowan Williams
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Jokes spread around the world and embed themselves in our shared culture; the most resonant of them get lodged in the language in the same way as cliches or old wives' tales do.
Jimmy Carr
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To have constructive conversations about the world's energy options, one needs to take a calm look at the numbers.
David J. C. MacKay
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Socrates... said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Plutarch
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The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.
Ray Bradbury
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I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to the reader, but also I need clarity.
Claire Messud
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That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love. One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It's the same all over the world.
Ben Sherwood
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Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.
Clive Thompson
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I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.
Sean Connery
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I prefer Los Angeles just because I live there and my family's there. But I think New York is just kind of the center of the world.
Adam Scott
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I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.
Cory Booker
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In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
Emile Zola
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It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.
William M. Evarts
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A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.
Albert Einstein
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Love and serve the world through your work.
Gautama Buddha