World Quotes
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We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Back when I was very small, and we had this bathroom with these sort of paneled mirrors on the side. And I would just sit there - because it was the only warm room in the house. And I would - if I was in a bad place - I would go to my imaginary place with these mirrors, and create this entire other world to sort of help level out what I was dealing with.
Sandra Bullock
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The United Nations remains the sole universal international organisation designed to maintain global peace. And in this sense it has no alternative today. It is also apparent that it should adapt to the ever-changing world, which we discuss all the time: how it should evolve and at what rate, which components should undergo qualitative changes. Of course, I will have to or rather should use this international platform to explain Russia's vision of today's international relations, as well as the future of this organisation and the global community.
Vladimir Putin
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The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.
Tommy Lee Jones
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This new world was already turning her into a cabbagehead, and she'd only been a part of it for an evening
Sarah MacLean
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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Ernest Hemingway
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Urban development in India... will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world.
Kushal Pal Singh
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Something I learned along the way is that you really have to have courage in life. You can do amazing things on any level. It doesn't have to change the world; it can just impact the people around you - that's just as amazing.
Joy Mangano
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My own chief curiosity is to go into the world and explore as richly as I can, and as deeply as I can, and understand its richness as fully as I can, and that certainly will live on.
Anjan Sundaram
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Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.
Tina Weymouth
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Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.
Ashwin Sanghi
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She [Benzino] is obsessed with me. I never would think I would see the day when I seen the worst rapper in the world going against one of the best.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
Willa Cather
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Those who want to "spread the wealth" almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many different countries around the world, to be a coincidence. Which is more dangerous, inequalities of wealth or concentrations of power?
Thomas Sowell
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What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
Jose Saramago
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There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.
William Goldman
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Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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The world isn't getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more... The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything - time to work, time to play, time to rest.
Hedy Lamarr
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You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.
William S. Burroughs
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
Wislawa Szymborska
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I believe that the best way to help people understand the world is to provide them with opportunities to actively explore, experiment, and express themselves.
Mitchel Resnick
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It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.
Nelson Shanks
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A good horse is the best company in the world.
Katherine Cecil Thurston