World Quotes · Page 279

There are no kinder or better people in the world than those who listen to you when you are 18.

— Anonymous

I believe if everyone fulfilled their deepest life purpose, the world would work perfectly.

— Jack Canfield

You're pregnant? Congratulations, the world needs another mindless, semiliterate consumer.

— Dov Davidoff

Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.

— D. H. Lawrence

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

— Maureen Duffy

I feel like I came out of the womb and was punted - there you go, out in the world!

— Drew Barrymore

“We live in a world where people are always busy but produce little or no results.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I've always believed I was going to win a world title.

— Joseph Benavidez

I was attracted to law school because I believed it would help me prepare for a career in the real world.

— Kenneth Chenault

I'm trying to use Palestine as a microcosm of the world, but maybe the world is a microcosm of Palestine. We're living…

— Elia Suleiman

I am aware that I preach a religious doctrine understood and accepted by a very small part of the religious world, when…

— Stephen L. Richards

For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with…

— Taylor Schilling

We're strong; We're very dedicated to what we do; We believe in ourselves; We go for what we want in life; We've…

— Sable

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The world when I was 13 wasn't truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to…

— LeAnn Rimes

When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned…

— Thomas Dolby

If I performed poorly, I knew the eyes of the sports world would be turned away from me. In that situation I…

— Gerry Lindgren

There is no equivalency between the United States of America, the greatest freedom loving nation in the history of the world, and…

— Benjamin E. Sasse

I think different societies, cultures, individuals, teams of people, make the world a better place. The founding fathers, they made New England,…

— Les Wexner

It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on…

— Raymond Carver

Thomas Edison reads not for entertainment but to increase his store of knowledge. He sucks in information as eagerly as the bee…

— B. C. Forbes

I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a…

— John Adams

We cannot afford to put off change any longer. We have to get on a new path within this new administration. We…

— James Hansen

I shall never accept that the law can be used to justify tragedy, to keep things as they are, to make us…

— Óscar Arias

There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past.

— Charlie Sheen

“You must know what you do with your time if you must become great in this life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

— Elijah Wood

The world seemed a lot less stupid before Facebook.

— Anonymous

In this uncertain world, the food is disposable. It is the wrappings that are permanent.

— Irena Chalmers

Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

— Mooji

One of the biggest gifts you can give the world is a healed life.

— Christiane Northrup

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

— Vernor Vinge

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

— Aleister Crowley

I train with the best in the world and it's been an awesome experience.

— Diego Sanchez

Unfortunately, there are not many people in the world who get to experience the Olympic Games.

— Casey Eastham

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

— Oliver Goldsmith

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm very encouraged by millennials and their drive to make the world a better place.

— John Mackey

The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it?

— Scott McClanahan

Before Internet existed, films were my source of real information from the world.

— Andrea Suarez Paz