World Quotes · Page 208

Knowledge is Bought only with a weary care, And wisdom means a world of pain.

— Joaquin Miller

“How in the world--when what is such knowledge but suffering?”

— Henry James

Ocean privilege does not exist anymore. The world is small. We cannot rely on distance anymore.

— Greg Gutfeld

Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.

— Seth Godin

Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

— Cormac McCarthy

I am the best player in the world and I am here to prove it

— Bobby Fischer

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

— Quentin Crisp

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

— Liya Kebede

A single man of one, only pebbles can be moved, but many men together, stands no mountain that can't move.

— Robert M. Hensel

Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.

— Gautama Buddha

I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that…

— Chris Tucker

Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity...

— Heinrich Heine

There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for…

— Louisa Lawson

I feel like, even in this crazy world of Trump getting elected and these things that really kind of caught me off-guard,…

— Jim Gaffigan

The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the…

— Edith Hamilton

And how she looked at me like I could save her from everything bad in he world. This was my secret: she…

— Lauren Oliver

It's absurd and quite tragic the way people have managed to pit science against faith. They aren't in conflict at all -…

— Rob Bell

Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed…

— Alfred Korzybski

Whoever is in the spotlight, people are really quick to judge. I mean, there are a lot of kids coming up who've…

— Britney Spears

Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense…

— Alan Moore

Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the…

— Charles de Gaulle

Mom, is the world coming to an end?" Jonny asked, picking up the plate of cookies and ramming one into his mouth.…

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn…

— Ernest L. Boyer

[Speaking of marriage and family] In this entire world there is not a more perfect, more complete image of God, Unity and…

— Pope John Paul II

The whole discord of this world consists in discords.

— Seneca the Younger

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

— Thomas Keneally

I certainly fear no one, and I know I can go out there and match up with the world's best.

— Ashleigh Barty

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

— Willa Cather

Impunity should be condemned in any corner of the world.

— Rigoberta Menchu

I Want to get lost in a world where I feel found

— Casar Jacobson

Here's our policy. It's Unite the world against terrorism.

— Chris Matthews

In Italy, we have some of the best minds in the world, and we have let them all go abroad.

— Beppe Grillo

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

— John Florio

I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.

— Layne Beachley

My daughters and my three wonderful grandchildren make me feel on top of the world.

— Randhir Kapoor

YoU acT LiKe iT's YoU AgaiNsT The WorLd BuT it's ReaLLy JusT YoU AgaiNsT YourSeLf

— Junior Dè Rèál Testament

I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

— August Strindberg

To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.

— Dogen

When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves.

— Frederick Lenz

Tell me where to sing to solve the world's problems and I'll go.

— Netta Barzilai