World Quotes
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The magic of compounding interest is truly the eighth wonder of the world!
Albert Einstein
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In this world, there is no clarity. There is only love and action.
Mother Teresa
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
V. S. Naipaul
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
E. O. Wilson
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My parents had met in high school and married right after my father came back from World War II. They honeymooned in Paris and returned to that city when my father, in college on the G.I. Bill, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship.
Mary Gaitskill
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A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.
Jack Klugman
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Ya know, Hitler was this evil, evil man. But with the World Bank and Israel manipulating America, he might have been on to something.
Zach Braff
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[Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that.
Paul Auster
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The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
Mahmoud Abbas
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Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.
M. John Harrison
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The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.
Pete Seeger
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He'd been mistaken in thinking that if he killed himself the sordid bourgeois world would perish with him.
Yukio Mishima
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I have attempted to write the following account of myself, as if I were a dead man in another world looking back at my own life. Nor have I found this difficult, for life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.
Charles Darwin
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The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is one who puts his own ease and security above the most laudable of philanthropies.
H. L. Mencken
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Every sound perceived by the acute ear in the rhythm of the world about us can be represented musically. Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear.
Claude Debussy
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
Karen Bender
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I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan.
Bill Berry R.E.M.
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I loved the world of imagination.
R. A. Salvatore
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
Naftali Bennett
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There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
J. C. Ryle
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The Negro slave trade was the first step in modern world commerce, followed by the modern theory of colonial expansion. Slaves as an article of commerce were shipped as long as the traffic paid.
W. E. B. Du Bois