World Quotes · Page 204

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

— Shannon Elizabeth

In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

— Emilio Estevez

Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?

— Philip Pullman

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

— Anais Nin

Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.

— Sarah Dessen

Most people in the world have seen more of me on-screen than my kids have.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

“The world is my church. My actions are my prayer. My behavior is my creed.”

— Steve Maraboli

A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.

— Paulo Coelho

Even when I started fighting small-time in '96, I never envisioned being on TV, being a world champion, making as much money…

— Matt Hughes

I look at you looking at me, Now I know why the best things are free, How you've changed my world You'll…

— Monica Denise Brown

My self-belief, really is what kept me going, I always believed I could be a great champion, a world champion.

— Ryan Garcia

The thing is I always believed in myself. I always believed that I was going to be the best in the world.

— Robbie Lawler

Conquer your neighbourhood, conquer your city, conquer your country, and then go after the rest of the world. That's my mantra.

— Grandmaster Flash

In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can…

— Jimi Hendrix

The world is filled with invisible realities. But, if people do not see or hear, then these realities do not exist.

— William Segal

Our bridge to the future must include bridges to other nations, because we remain the world's indispensable nation to advance prosperity, peace…

— William J. Clinton

What does the world need that you can provide?” Express your social mission, whether it’s cause marketing, volunteering, culture, environmental initiatives, sustainable…

— Jeffrey Hollender

We in the richest societies have too many calories even as we starve for beautiful, fresh food; we have overly large houses…

— Charles Eisenstein

My temper is of a recluse and contemplative cast; had it been otherwise, I should, perhaps, on some former occasions, have entered…

— William Godwin

Such is the grace and power of baptism; not an overwhelming of the world as of old, but a purification of the…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains…

— Stevie Smith

The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at…

— Brad Thor

“What do the vitarags [the enlightened one] say? This world will keep on running, You do not interfere with anything in it.…

— Dada Bhagwan

As good as you've been to this world is as good as it's gonna be right back to you.

— Janis Joplin

Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall: The word outleaps the world, and light is all.

— Theodore Roethke

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

— Richard Cecil

Well, don't we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?

— Mick Jagger

Not by talking, but by praying And becoming something good, Can we offer peace to the world.

— Sri Chinmoy

The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!

— Soren Kierkegaard

There are few scientists in the world with the resources I have at my disposal.

— Henry Markram

Take her away; for she hath lived too long, To fill the world with vicious qualities.

— William Shakespeare

Bringing a baby into the world is not like grilling enchiladas. It's a difficult thing.

— Gael Garcia Bernal

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

— Desmond Tutu

In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.

— Frank Miller

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

— Sylvia Plath

Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.

— Patrick Wang

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

— Richard Powers

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

— Kenneth E. Boulding