World Quotes · Page 1,626

I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.

— Steven Millhauser

Now the whole worlds calling me a killer all I ever did was try to reach the kids with the realer.

— Tupac Shakur

I feel like I took opportunities that were given to me to get where I needed to be, but it's not necessarily…

— Shanna Moakler

I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

— J. Michael Straczynski

for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.

— Sarah Dessen

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them…

— Michel de Montaigne

We will continue to raise the bar for our audience, investing in great storytellers and reflecting the authentic faces and voices of…

— Channing Dungey

I'm not sure what [my latest works are] about but I'm convinced they're the best things I've done and I'm going to…

— Mark Kostabi

The more I travel around the world, the more I see people want the same thing - to be happy. We wouldn't…

— Jason Mraz

Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad,…

— Andrea Corr

Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to…

— Robert Reich

Eternity.—Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

We must learn the correct lessons from the U.S. war on terror, which, far from making the U.S., its citizens and interests…

— Prashant Bhushan

There are so many things that we've been conditioned to believe 'that's what happens.' A woman walks down the street and she…

— Leah Williamson

If you think God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you live through the…

— Kevin DeYoung

The political arena is the funniest.They [politicians] are always pretending to change, but they never change. They're the best actors and actresses…

— Paul Mooney

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

— Karl Kraus

The fact is that when you talk about Mujib [Rahiman], everything seems so incredible. I don't understand how the world can take…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

I'm ready to help China realize its football dream. I think China can be a major player on the world stage one…

— Ronaldo

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Even if I’d been wide awake, I knew Dimitri would’ve taken my suitcase anyway. That’s how he was, a lost remnant of…

— Richelle Mead

When a coach trusts you enough to take you from the youth team and put you into the first team, one of…

— Pedro

I get a lot of credit for having succeeded as a Latina in this world, and I am not that. I appreciate…

— Cameron Esposito

Don't ever doubt yourself because there are enough people in the world that are going to doubt you.

— Casey Stoney

The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the…

— Michael Pollan

I grew up in a pretty gay world - my brother's gay and he's been married to a man for 20 years,…

— Kevin Smith

I don't have a goal to win 21 Grand Slams and to be No. 1 in the world for, let's say, 37 weeks.

— Daniil Medvedev

Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the…

— Nancy Farmer

It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a…

— Saul Alinsky

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the…

— Jacob Bronowski

I come from a culture that embodies the need to convert others to "the truth." The Mormon Church has one of the…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.

— Josh Billings

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

— Anonymous

I thought 'Hanna' was an opportunity to explore a character whose femininity was so raw and unconditioned by the modern world.

— Esme Creed-Miles

Would the Lord send one of the Twelve Apostles halfway around the world to help just one person? The answer is YES.…

— David A. Bednar

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go…

— David Alan Grier

Ministry, however, is simply loving the person in front of you. It's about stopping for the one and being the very fragrance…

— Heidi Baker

“I didn't want the sun to rise. I didn't want the world to continue turning. I wanted the whole planet put into…

— Anna Sheehan

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

— James A. Garfield

For me, being able to say that my first-ever photo shoot was with one of the most well-known and iconic fashion photographers…

— Halima Aden