World Quotes · Page 1,019

What a world we live in. I want to be incredibly close to the heart of it all. To live honestly, truthfully…

— Dianna Agron

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by…

— Helen Keller

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

— Samuel Johnson

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

— Anonymous

Instead of trying to bring freedom to the Arab world, couldn't we just concentrate on trying to fend off the European Union…

— Peter Hitchens

“In life, everyone must decide in what area of life he or she wants to be great. You must choose what territory…

— Sunday Adelaja

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.

— Haruki Murakami

There are choirs singing in your head. If you listen, you will hear the music. It is the song of angels. Pay…

— Neale Donald Walsch

There's nothing more exciting than to have a project that you like, that you're proud of, and you're waiting for that validation…

— Will Packer

The world has always been a dangerous place. Now it is dangerous in a different way, because the world order that we've…

— Anne Applebaum

I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have…

— Henry David Thoreau

I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the…

— Joan Didion

A work can do many things at once, and it doesn't have to be just about the world, it could also be…

— Stephen Shore

Tolerance is an essential value in the modern world, and we have daily reminders of how awful the alternatives to it are.…

— Samuel Scheffler

I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men…

— Bertrand Russell

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth,…

— Yair Lapid

Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or…

— Nikola Tesla

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

— Frederick Douglass

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

— James Hogg

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

— Edward Heath

I felt like I didn't have [any] pizzazz, and a lot of girls say I'm out of this world, so I was…

— Bruno Mars

I feel that my purpose is to shed light on some of the darker sides of our world, and to lend a…

— Vic Mensa

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the…

— Rudyard Kipling

In the deaf community, there is exactly that - a community. It's like nothing I see in the hearing world. It's old…

— Rachel Shenton

'Bigg Boss' is the biggest show in the world, and I'm sure anyone would want to host it, but not me.

— Nani

The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible…

— Marshall Herskovitz

We must never again let America be led into a fratricidal war like the last two world wars, for the sake of…

— George Lincoln Rockwell

I have traveled to all the continents except for one, and I know what is going on out there... The world is…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I am not thinking about World Cup and all those things. You can't play freely if you start thinking like that.

— Vijay Shankar

If we become world champions it may open the door to the Fifa Ballon d'Or, although I think it would be difficult.…

— Thiago Silva

I was a very bad musician. I was the world's worst guitar player, so when I was performing solo with a guitar,…

— Loren Mazzacane Connors

Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.

— Mark Udall

I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around…

— Jim Breyer

I'm a huge car guy, I cannot wait to see it [Ferrari World]. I hear there is also unbelievable golf which I'd…

— John Cena

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

— Horace

Western powers remain imprisoned by the idea that the world is a dangerous place, that it needs to be managed, and that…

— Stephen Kinzer

I have a really big interest in the spirit world: spooks and the things we can't necessarily see but feel.

— Matana Roberts

In 'The Adjustment Bureau,' Damon shows movie-star concentration as David Norris, a politician whose world ambitions hit a pothole when his angry…

— Elvis Mitchell