World Quotes
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It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.
William Hazlitt
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Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is.
Cees Nooteboom
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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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Someone once defined a social problem as a situation in which the real world differs from the theories of intellectuals. To the intelligentsia, it follows, as the night follows the day, that it is the real world that is wrong and which needs to change.
Thomas Sowell
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I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world.
Simon Baker
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Your soul is the whole world.
Hermann Hesse
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Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.
Mike Ferguson
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To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on your voyage round the world; otherwise you may tremble at the appearance of every cloud.
Joshua Slocum
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All I owe the world is my art.
Sherman Alexie
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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
Thomas More
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Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.
Hector Hugh Munro
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Heaven knows that alcohol is the worst thing in the world, but it's debatable whether cocaine is worse than caffeine or whether it's the same thing and they just changed the name.
Merle Haggard
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Hollywood is a changing world these days. This is one of the things that ought to be changed.
Paul Newman
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Satan must be defeated in the arena he dominates, this world. So Christ was sent into this world to destroy Satan's works.
Charles Caldwell Ryrie
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The blood has run long enough. We have to care about the little people. It is not adults that own this world — it is the children.
Agnes Baker Pilgrim
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I don't consider my photographs fashion photographs. The photographs were for fashion, but at the same time they had an ulterior motive, something more to do with the world in general.
Deborah Turbeville
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My whole life, I've always had one foot in the classical world and one foot in the rock, pop, and folk world.
Michael Bacon
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We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.
Dante Alighieri
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I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal
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The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.
Nancy Spain
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Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks.
Thomas Sowell
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There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
Richard Nelson Bolles
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Work defines our lives and our place in the world.
Neel Mukherjee
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Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl'd, To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the Pole the produce of the sun, And knit the unsocial climates into one.
William Cowper