World Quotations

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness.

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you

The most boring thing in the world? Silence.

At this point, I feel like I can allow myself to be goofy and take more risks, and even if I do fall on my face, I know it's not the end of the world and at least I tried to do something different.

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.

Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much.

I have the nicest life in the world.

There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.

I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony.

The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character will be more rested when you resume playing, a mode that temporarily speeds up your leveling.

The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.

If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.

When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.

Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it.

I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.

Vin Diesel is the best kisser in the world, better than anyone else I've ever had. The most attractive thing about Vin is his brain. That's his most attractive muscle.

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes through your dressing room.

It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.

My motto in life is 'If you think it, you can do it' and if we all apply that thought we can end hunger the world over.

Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.

An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying.

I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.

When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.

Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act.

When the storms of life come, if they come to me personally, to my family or to the world, I want to be strong enough to stand and be a strength to somebody else, be shelter for somebody else.

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.

So many people in the world would rather stay in a situation that's painful but familiar because they're comfortable with it. Not a lot of people have the strength or heart to realize when something's not good for them and to turn around and be alone.

Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.

That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

The world is facing a new networked, digital lifestyle, and we will ensure that Canon remains ahead of the game.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.

I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.

We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

The world economy today is recovering slowly, and there are still some destabilising factors and uncertainties. The underlying impact of the international financial crisis is far from over.

It's nice to be able to communicate digitally with people around the world.

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

We live in an instant-coffee world. Sometimes real-world solutions take a little longer.

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.

The world's most famous and popular language is music.

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.