World Quotes
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People don't work in a dotcom because they have to. There are many professions that don't require that sort of time. But people sign up because they want to make world-changing differences, to build something that affects millions of people.
Kevin Systrom
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Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.
Shirley Chisholm
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I believe in person to person; every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is only one person in the world for me at that moment.
Mother Teresa
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It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.
Carrie Brownstein
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
Miguel de Cervantes
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There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.
Leonard Slatkin
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But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The world chooses to think what the world thinks.
John McAfee
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You can find tea in a tea cup.. but cannot find world in a world cup.
Arjuna Ranatunga
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I am the world's laziest shopper, but very rarely have I had to take anything back.
Erin O'Connor
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I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity," Marcus said. "Charity toward whom?" "Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn't make a world better than this.
Daniel Abraham
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And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.
Lawrence Taylor
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Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way. . . .
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.
Ezra Pound
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If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
Robin Williams
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Writing is the great invention of the world.
Abraham Lincoln
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Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal. Whatever I own is temporary, since we're only here for a short period of time. It's what we do and produce, it's our actions, that will last forever. That's real value.
Nicolas Berggruen
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Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.
James Boswell
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I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest thing in the world.
Jordana Brewster
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When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.
Cary Elwes
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Inspiration is really all around us. I pay attention to a lot of different fields. I stay up on current events. I go to community meetings to see what concerns the people in my neighborhood. Paying attention to social interactions offline really inform interactions online. The real world is a bottomless source of inspiration for what you can build.
Caterina Fake
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The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen.
Sarah Dessen
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All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the lonliness that comes from the hatred. All the unhappiness, all the cruelty, it gathers like clouds in the air, and grows dark and cold and heavy, and falls like grey snow in thick layers over the land. Then the world is muffled and numb, and no one can hear each other or feel each other. Think how sad and lonely that must be.
William Nicholson