World Quotes · Page 817

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

— William Hazlitt

It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

— Walter Raleigh

Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.

— George W. Bush

204 countries, 809 islands, 7 seas and yet I can't find a decent relationship.

— Anonymous

Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you're probably watching the wrong channel.

— Groucho Marx

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I consider my position in the business world not as a woman but as a person.

— Deborah Meaden

I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.

— C. Z. Guest

The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In…

— Henry Louis Gates

I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.

— Abby Sunderland

I believe that if America does not lead, others will - others who do not share our interests and our values -…

— Mitt Romney

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world…

— Mark Zuckerberg

Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.

— Terry Pratchett

Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

— Benjamin Franklin

I want people to know the truth. That's what drives me. That there is truth in the world to know, and once…

— Adam Conover

Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at…

— Samuel R. Delany

I think every person either inherits or eventually makes up their own idea of what they are and who they are and…

— Marvin Minsky

Another thing that makes the process different is we go in there and are completely immersed in [that] world for however many…

— John Francis Daley

On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part…

— Bei Dao

Meditation is enjoying oneself, just sitting silently doing nothing: happy, joyous without any reason, because all reasons come from outside. You meet…

— Rajneesh

I want to see my kids grow up in a world that I grew up in, which was it had imagination and…

— Craig T. Nelson

We strive towards a better world, but one can never do it without compromise. We can all change the world for the…

— G.W. Sok

I was lucky enough to have had great success early on in life; to have had all the things the material world…

— Tom Ford

There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.

— Madeleine Albright

Never has an angry word spoken ever made this world better.

— Jeffrey Fry

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are.

— Thomas Dreier

If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.

— Phyllis Bottome

My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

— Lasse Hallstrom

He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.

— Holly Black

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

— Jeremy Gilley

Malta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread.

— Alan Coren

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

— Friedrich Schiller

There's no doubt in the world that I am the biggest 'Doctor Who' fan.

— Dean Devlin

Sex, and the attraction between the sexes, does make the world go 'round.

— Hugh Hefner

The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.

— Kenneth Oppel

To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.

— Jeffrey Smart

Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.

— Zelda Fitzgerald