World Quotes

• I say to the grownups, 'If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we've observed in the universe that's fine. But don't make your kids do it.'

  

  Bill Nye
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Universe

• It has been wisely said that you can take a child of God, put him in a dungeon with a Bible and a candle and lock him away, and he will know more about what's going on in today's world with the Word of God than all the pundits in Washington.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • God
  • Children
  • Today

• If you talk to anybody, among the first things you'll hear is, 'Steve Carell is the nicest guy in the world.' And he is. 'Steve Carell is the greatest guy to work with.' And he is. But all of that belies other aspects that are as true with him.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Work
  • True
  • Guy

• To those out there who are suffering from cancer, facing adversity, I want you to know that your will to live can make all the difference in the world.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Live
  • Suffering
  • Cancer

• Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.

  

  Sarah Lacy
  • Important
  • Art
  • Passion

• L.A. gives me a lot. L.A. is a city of extremes. People come here from all over the world that have these, like, giant ideas, and they put everything into it. And some people just fall flat on their face, and some people, you know, shoot like a rocket.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • People
  • City
  • Fall

• I just feel like [creativity] is a reflection of the world around me and I don't think you can divorce yourself from that. So I don't really think in terms of, 'Do you still have it?' Even if I was doing something new, I think I would be engaged in the same process.

  

  Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons
  • Thinking
  • Creativity
  • Reflection

• There is this way that I felt when I was younger that we were beyond history and we were all citizens of the world that now seems so naive.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • World
  • History

• “I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me.”

  

  Ammon Hennacy
  • World
  • Trying
  • Change

• I am the most tense, annoying person in the world.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • World
  • Annoying

• I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season.

  

  Marian Seldes
  • World
  • Hate
  • Theatre

• I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • Inspiration

• The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a very tragic way just how vulnerable many areas of the world are to these sorts of actions.

  

  Jo Bonner
  • World
  • September

• Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

  

  Joseph Auslander
  • Men
  • Peace
  • Thanksgiving

• I think what Mr. Trump has is this - he has experiences. He has put more things together in businesses around the United States, around the world. And he's had some things that didn't go exactly right. He's been able to find a way to resurrect those things. He's been able to make some changes.

  

  Bobby Knight
  • World
  • Together
  • Trump

• We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

  

  Alain Robert
  • World

• Singing is the thing apart from my family that gives me the most joy in the world. I don't ever spend a day without singing.

  

  Maria Doyle Kennedy
  • Family
  • Joy
  • Singing

• The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in the lives of particular creatures to an objective, world-encompassing form that exists both individually and intersubjectively. It was originally a biological evolutionary process, and in our species it has become a collective cultural process as well. Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Consciousness

• The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.

  

  Jose Mujica
  • World
  • Science
  • Respect

• There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover.

  

  William Shenstone
  • People
  • Imagine
  • Honest

• Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • God
  • Live
  • Nature

• Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

  

  Allan Savory
  • Food
  • City
  • Church

• Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.

  

  John Conyers
  • World
  • Violence

• The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Reality
  • Peace
  • Kindness

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