World Quotes
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It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.
Sarah Addison Allen
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All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal
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The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world, but the paradoxical character of moral luck which emerges from this acknowledgement shows that we are unable to operate with such a view, for it leaves us with no one to be.
Thomas Nagel
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The goal of the human experience is to transform ourselves from being who long to attain power in the physical world to beings who are empowered from within.
Caroline Myss
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The Olympics is about bringing the world together and learning how to go through struggles. That's what inspired me before my career and that's been my inspiration ever since I was striving towards the 2008 Games.
David Boudia
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It is easy to sympathize with the MIS staffs around the world, I mean who hasn't lost work due to Windows or a Microsoft application crashing?
Chris DiBona
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In this world, everyone is friends with everyone else. In a way.
Katherine Howe
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Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas Sowell
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There is no conflict in the world that cannot be solved.
Jonathan Powell
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Judi Bari did something that I believe is unparalleled in the history of the environmental movement. She is an Earth First! activist who took it upon herself to organize Georgia Pacific sawmill workers into the IWW…Well guess what friends, environmentalists and rank and file timber workers becoming allies is the most dangerous thing in the world to the timber industry!
Darryl Cherney
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New York's the lonesomest place in the world if you don't know anybody.
Nella Larsen
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The Internet has become important on the world's stage.
Steve Crocker
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It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school.
Rick Mercer
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Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books helped me learn to understand other people and they taught me a lot about myself. ... Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life.
Judy Blume
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The world is safer without Saddam Hussein. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.
Jimmy Carter
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The mere fact that I'm former head of state and former under-secretary in the U.N. system, it means that I can get in touch with anybody in the world, in theory.
Martti Ahtisaari
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The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.
Stephen Covey
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There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.
Michael McKean
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It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.
Seneca the Younger
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Like so many before him who have ruined countries around the world, Obama has a greatly inflated idea of his own capabilities and the capabilities off what can be accomplished by rhetoric or even by political power.
Thomas Sowell
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First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.
Catherynne M. Valente
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There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world - no matter how large or small our circle of influence.
Stephen Covey
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Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.
George Sanders
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It is dangerous to live in a secure world.
Teju Cole