World Quotes · Page 192

“The world of books is the only paradise there is.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains

— Annie Dillard

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

— Ricardo Reis

To be connected to the real world is healthy and important.

— Jesse Schell

They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.

— Laurie Anderson

Africa is underpopulated. We have 20% of the world's landmass and 13% of its population.

— Mo Ibrahim

I never wanted to be an actor. I just wanted to learn languages and travel and see the world.

— Udo Kier

We refuse to believe that this present world is the sum total of human existence.

— Max Lucado

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world.…

— Marilyn Monroe

We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white,…

— James MacArthur

“Our world is filled with people who have only a shallow knowledge of certain skills and have remained like that for so…

— Sunday Adelaja

There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and…

— Fulton J. Sheen

I don't know that I'm the best fighter in the world, but I know I can beat anybody in the world. And…

— Jake Ellenberger

Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.

— Swami Vivekananda

Look at the choices you have, not the choices that have been taken away from you. In them, there are whole worlds…

— Michael J. Fox

If you don't want the world to see something you're sending, stop and think before you put it out there.

— Drew Pinsky

I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be…

— Dave Franco

All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you…

— Haruki Murakami

Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or…

— John Barth

Rather than constantly questioning and challenging our beliefs and being willing to think differently about the opportunities that are out there, we…

— John Hagel III

By now, everyone I know is one of seven strangers, inevitably hoping to represent a predefined demographic and always failing horribly. The…

— Chuck Klosterman

Not that anyone minds--no one's paying attention to the music. Most of them never really listen to music. Practically no one actually…

— Adam Selzer

It will be nearly impossible to slow warming appreciably without condemning much of the world to poverty unless energy sources that emit…

— Henry Sylvester Jacoby

Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the…

— Magic Johnson

One of the greatest influences a person can have in this world is to influence a child.

— Rosemary M. Wixom

For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

— Wendell Berry

The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.

— Thomas Aquinas

A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.

— Eli Pariser

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

— Anonymous

The time for the destruction of the world and its people hath arrived.

— Shoghi Effendi

Certainly it is a different world for players nowadays. But it depends on the individual.

— Franz Beckenbauer

We are Liverpool, we are strong, and we can beat any team in the world.

— Sadio Mane

She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.

— Joyce Maynard

What happens in Britain, what happens in the world, matters a lot to us in our core business.

— Satya Nadella

One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.

— Leo Tolstoy

You think the world owes you something, and it just doesn't work that way.

— James M. Gavin

We can follow a steady upward course in a world of change without fear, welcoming opportunities

— Henry B. Eyring

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If you have a sense of your place in the world, that's the best preparation for anything.

— Casey Wilson

The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.

— Malcolm Muggeridge