World Quotes · Page 2,505

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The Internet is allowing for us to really experience people in some of the most distant places in the world - as…

— Jimmy Wales

New Rule: If you can force a woman to look at a sonogram—to see what will happen if she has an abortion—you…

— Bill Maher

I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.

— Yohan Blake

BRICS must provide a united and clear voice in shaping a peaceful, balanced and stable world. We must harness each other's strengths,…

— Narendra Modi

If I was painting or writing, I wouldn't veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor,…

— Josh Hartnett

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

— Shelby Foote

I have to have animals. They really make life worth living, and my world actually revolves around them. They know exactly when…

— Mark Lanegan

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

— George Bernard Shaw

He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has…

— Stephen King

Considering all the different ways in which China has interacted with the world in the last 50 years, considering all the challenges…

— James Fallows

When policymakers, financiers and scientists describe the world decades from now, in the throes of climatic changes that we now only model,…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

Imagination is the only true thing in the world!

— Sarah Orne Jewett

If you're looking at things with the right set of eyes, people are endlessly fascinating. And then, of course, if you look…

— John Cusack

I was challenged to a fistfight by Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times writer, who is part of a…

— Ishmael Reed

There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving…

— Jerry A. Coyne

All of the women in music business understand that. They're fighting in a misogynist world. That's why they wear some elements of…

— Nelly Furtado

“Darkness is the world governed by Satan Light is the world governed by God. Which world will your live in ?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Commonsense lets us down, because commonsense evolved in a world where nothing moves very fast, and nothing is very small or very…

— Richard Dawkins

I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not…

— Oliver Goldsmith

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that…

— Harry Allen Overstreet

Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.

— David R. Brower

And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its…

— Luc de Clapiers

[John] Adams's letters reveal his persistence and determination to win over the Dutch against all odds and to convince them and the…

— Gordon S. Wood

We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

— Louise Glück

There was kind of a code that you had as an Australian that you never left the court losing unless you had…

— John Newcombe

Having a baby is the best thing in the world.

— Emma Weymouth

I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.

— Mark Haddon

It's only been in the past two generations that we truly understood the impact our civilization has had on the natural world.…

— Annalee Newitz

I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics,…

— Patrick deWitt

This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a…

— Bobby Bonilla

It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.

— Harvey Fierstein

In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music - all with love. In…

— Valerie Solanas

To a child who dies, and to the parents of this child, will you speak, if religion consoles them, in praise of…

— Andre Comte-Sponville

“The only person can love you in the world is Your mother (real) She forgets with in seconds the bad behavior you…

— akshay Me

I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue,…

— Richard Dawkins

I never sat down and said, you know, what the world needs is a good, sick cartoonist.

— Gary Larson

I don't recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn't revolve around them.

— Pete Carril

While we play for the club we are focused on usual routine, but when we are with the national team and the…

— Giorgio Chiellini