World Quotes
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw
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Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy.
Jay Parini
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For members of the Democratic Party, and progressives all over the world, it is difficult to overstate or hyperbolize the despair and dread that has descended upon them in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump.
Fabrizio Moreira
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again.
Daphne Zuniga
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The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.
Douglas Hurd
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[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba.
Gilberto Gil
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The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.
B. F. Skinner
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Social media has given us the world at our fingertips every morning. And we watch it change, live. In the morning, in the old days, we'd read the 'Post,' and that was what we had.
Elvis Duran
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Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.
Dan Barber
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Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
Kazuo Ishiguro
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You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member.
Neil LaBute
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When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
Carly Fiorina
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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
James Allen
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Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.
Pete Seeger
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Nowadays it would be reasonable to have an annual world championship.
Boris Spassky
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God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.
Mark Zuckerberg
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We live in a world defined by the rapid pace of technological change.
Jerome Powell
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I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news. I appreciate honesty.
David Rakoff
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And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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The world won’t get more or less terrible if we’re indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate,’ Kim said. ‘Though it’s possible it will seem slightly less terrible if there are marshmallows in the hot chocolate.
Kamila Shamsie
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The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.
Ben Mendelsohn
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Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
James A. Baldwin