World Quotes
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Do the very best that you can, in the things you do best, and you will know in thy soul, that you are the greatest success in the world.
Og Mandino
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People in this world shun people for being great, for being a bright color, for standing out. But the time is now, to be OK with being the greatest you.
Kanye West
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Your future shines bright - find your purpose and go for it. Starting tomorrow, you can change the world.
Gabrielle Giffords
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I think most people in the developed world would admit to carrying some sort of handheld device, whether it's a laptop or a cell phone, at all times.
Alexis Denisof
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The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next.
Gautama Buddha
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No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
Phillips Brooks
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Of course most Americans don't know how A.I.G. brought the world's financial system to near-ruin or what credit-default swaps are. They may not even know what A.I.G. stands for. But Americans do make the connection between their fears about their own jobs and their broad understanding of the A.I.G. debacle.
Frank Rich
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
E. M. Forster
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I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now - guys riding buses, there's no training staff, and there's a lot of paranoia.
D. B. Sweeney
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'We have to level the ground, Sir, because God didn't think of gunners when he made the world. He made too many lumps and not enough smooth spots. But we're very good at improving His handiwork, sir.'
Bernard Cornwell
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There is a restless identity in the New World. The New World needs an identity without guilt or blame.
Derek Walcott
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Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.
C. S. Lewis
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The city Babel is the Ham-like man, who builds this city upon the earth; the tower is his self-chosen god, and divine worship. All reason-taught, from the school of this world, are the master-builders of this tower.
Jakob Bohme
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From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.
Jeffrey Deitch
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The best eraser in the world is a good night's sleep.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
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I am the kind of person who doesn't recognize borders. I don't understand why we think it is okay to keep someone within one border when they are unable to feed their family when they could be getting help somewhere else. I don't see people as different so I don't understand the idea of borders in this world.
Angelina Jolie
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You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
Art Buchwald
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Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel.
Leon Uris
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The chief objection I have to Pantheism is that it says nothing. To call the world 'God' is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym for the word 'world'.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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This regionalization is in keeping with the Tri-Lateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of one world government. National sovereignty is no longer a viable concept.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world.
Pele
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'Often,' he says, 'what we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.'
Charles de Lint
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As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.
Kathryn Schulz
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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Pearl Bailey