World Quotes

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
- World
- Want
- Overcome
Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back as well and use that spotlight to shine, or at least to balance that light and to try to shine light onto the other issues that were happening in the world.

Serinda Swan
- Trying
- Giving
- Balance

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.

Jimmy Wales
- People
- World
- Knowledge
The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.

Jonathan Safran Foer
- People
- Funny
- Rest
It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.

Abraham Lincoln
- Men
- History
- True
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

William Butler Yeats
- Children
- Water
- Fairy
There is another world, but it is in this one.

William Butler Yeats
- Life
- World
Sometimes the world is better off if one always defaults to option number two.

Anne Mallory
- World
- Option
- Defaults