World Quotes
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You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that I'm entering some 'telephono-sphere.' You don't say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem.
Evgeny Morozov
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A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force, all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth. We inhale its ardent aroma and, no matter what our ages, we feel young and nubile in a world aflame with desire.
Diane Ackerman
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The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.
Stanley Hauerwas
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None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.
Stephen Covey
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Learning the structure of the world around us and forming lasting social relationships are both lifelong tasks.
Brian Christian
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It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable most days as anybody else, despite the fact that it must be obvious they would be - given that we are all agreed that money and fame do not bring happiness. Instead the world would prefer to enjoy the idea, against what it knows to be true, that wealth and fame do in fact insulate and protect against misery and it would rather we shut up if we are planning to indicate otherwise.
Stephen Fry
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We are not trying to solve the world's problems... However, even in the midst of hatred and killing, there are things worth living for. A wonderful encounter, or a thing of beauty can still exist.
Hayao Miyazaki
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I think the solution to making this world better is if we would just be healthy, mentally.
Howie Mandel
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the problems of three little people in a big world don't add up to much
Humphrey Bogart
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I think everyone, all of us, are complicated people. We have jobs that require us to be a certain way. We all do. Unfortunately, our jobs overtake our personality, but that is the world. We live in a conundrum. You have to keep it together.
Paul Guilfoyle
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The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.
Rudyard Kipling
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We live in the real world - we live within a certain history of the plague that has landed on us.
Wole Soyinka
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And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.
Norton Juster
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In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.
Nicholas of Cusa
