World Quotes
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The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction. To inquire what is beyond it is no concern of man; nor can the human mind form any conjecture concerning it.
Pliny the Elder
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To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity; soldier and civilians must see their hope in some other world than one completely dominated by the physical and chemical sciences.
George Stanley
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Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Can a book carry you into the world you have to pretend doesn't exist most of the time, can a book carry you back out into what first made you alive.
Ariana Reines
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Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.
Katie Salen
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If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.
George III
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Peace. That's what I want all around the world, everywhere I go I always do the peace sign with my fingers.
Michael Jackson
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I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.
Tina Weymouth
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Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world.
E. A. Bucchianeri
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The phenomenal generosity of the United States in its aid budget towards health issues is the best in the world. You can look at that broadly, you can look at it in terms of HIV, the PEPFAR money which came together in a Republican administration with bipartisan support.
Bill Gates
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While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.
Carson McCullers
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... dissatisfaction with one's self and dissatisfaction with the world - is necessary - it is one of the prime things that keeps the artist going on - that drives him - happiness, as such, must come in between times, as best it can.
Clarence John Laughlin
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The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the World War II, and the whole industry became more backward-looking.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.
Michael Morpurgo
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When I was little and something awful was happening my Mama would tell me to close my eyes.She was tryin' to keep me from seeing her do drugs or other bad things. And then when she was finished or the bad things were over she'd say, “now when I count to three, you open your eyes and the past is gone, the world is a good place,and it's all gonna be okay.
Michael Oher
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The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.
Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
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I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.
Ernest Hemingway
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The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.
Sarah Palin
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World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.
Herbie Hancock
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When God made up this world of ours, He made it long and wide, And meant that it should shelter all, And none should be denied.
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
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Every moment is, in some ways, eternal. Once you put something into the world, it stays there.
Derek Cianfrance
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I've always walked around with the sense that the world is not a safe place. I didn't get the spontaneous gene or the adventure one, really. After going through the day with its stresses, when I shut that door at night, I don't have to deal with anything but dinner, 'E.R.' and my bathrobe.
Caroline Knapp
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We pass through this world but once.
Stephen Jay Gould
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True prosperity isn't something you take from the world: it's something you share with the world.
Cameron Johnson