World Quotes

• Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty.

  

  Epictetus
  • World
  • Duty
  • Distracted

• Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • World
  • Poetry

• I was born in Oslo, Norway, but now live in the suburbs of Southwest London, right near the River Thames. It's a lovely part of the world.

  

  Alexander Hanson
  • World
  • Live
  • River

• I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.

  

  William Congreve
  • Born
  • Stairs
  • Upstairs

• To suffer is the great modality of taking the world seriously.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • World
  • Great

• If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Job
  • Market
  • Employee

• …the sudden rise of a religious movement in the West that restricts the eating of beef and thereby saves billions of tons of grain and provides a nourishing diet for the world as a whole.

  

  Alvin Toffler
  • World
  • Religious

• It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong.

  

  Brother Theodore
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Fatal

• I would like all my friends, followers, fans and fellow travelers to know that I am fighting cancer and will therefore be taking a break from performing while getting the treatment and cure. I shall of course be continuing to write music - in my world it just has to be part of the therapy - and I fully expect to be back in good shape next year.

  

  Jon Lord
  • Good
  • Music
  • Friends

• My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.

  

  Jane Seymour
  • War
  • Mother
  • Japanese

• There's so much corruption in America; there's so much corruption around the world. It's all coming to the surface thanks to the Internet, and thanks to the younger people who are saying, 'We don't like corrupt people.'

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • People
  • America
  • Internet

• My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • House
  • Running
  • Mean

• I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • World

• That's what's so great, I get to play any character in the world. And I think that's one of the things that makes doing 'Comedy Bang Bang' or other improv podcasts so fun, as well as my own, is that you can really explore a character deeply for a long period of time that is nothing like yourself.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.

  

  Andrew Cohen
  • World

• Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • World

• You cannot live in the best city in the world and have people living on the streets.

  

  Sadiq Khan
  • People
  • Live
  • City

• No gifts this year. I have given gifts on the Tour de France and very rarely has it ever come back to help me. This is the biggest bike race in the world and it means more than any bike race in the world. It means more to me than any bike race in the world. I want to win … no gifts.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • World
  • Help
  • Bike

• Who designed this world we live in?

  

  Midge Ure Ultravox
  • World
  • Designed

• The world, an entity out of everything, was created by none of the gods or men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and reg- ularly becoming extinguished.

  

  Heraclitus
  • World
  • Fire
  • Gods

• We live in a world where people can ridicule you at the push of the button. They can question you at the push of a button.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • People
  • Live
  • Question

• Sadly, a U.S. invasion of Iraq 'would threaten the whole stability of the Middle East' - or so Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab League, told the BBC on Tuesday. Amr's talking points are so Sept. 10: It's supposed to destabilize the Middle East. The stability of the Middle East is unique in the non-democratic world and it's the lack of change in Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt that's turned them into a fetid swamp of terrorist bottom-feeders.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Unique
  • League
  • Stability

• My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better then it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better then how it’s recorded.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Song
  • Band
  • Period

• It's very hard to cheaply build anything significant in a multi-platform, mobile world.

  

  Keith Teare
  • World

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