Quotes about the world

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“One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.”

“Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.”

“Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.”

“He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.”

“The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.”

“Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world.”

“The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.”

“I don't want the world. I want you.”

“The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees.”

“Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world.”

“We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.”

“The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.”

“Percy (to Annabeth): If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick you.
Silena: Awww… Percy, that is so sweet!
Annabeth: Shut up, Silena.”

“There are two kinds of girls in this world. The kind who breaks hearts and the kind who gets her heart broken.”

“Laugh and the world laughs with you!”

“She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.”

“I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.”

“Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.”

“But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.”

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”

“If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?”

“Of course in the present day […] the world of work begins to become — threatens to become — our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands of the working world grow ever more total, grasping ever more completely the whole of human existence.”

“I want to live in a world where people are judged by who they are instead of what size they wear.”

“We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?”

“She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.”

“Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible!”

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”

“I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.”

“In this world, there is a fine line between enlightenment and brain damage.”

“But I am dead certain--ba-dump-bump-ching--that I'm the first guy to lead an army of spirits in an assault from the spirit-world side… and had them start off screaming, "BOO!”

“The most important single thing that any Latter-day Saint ever does in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority.”

“See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places”

“At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.”

“People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.”

“and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world.”

“There are many reasons why novelists write but they all have one thing in common a need to create an alternative world.”

“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”

“… crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.”

“That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!”

“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.”

“It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.”

“(Man in bar) Can you imagine a world without men? (Sylvia) No crime, and lots of happy, fat women.”

“The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.”

“A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.”

“That thing that looks like me but isn't? He'll burn down the world if Sebastian wants him to, and laugh while he's doing it. That's what you're saving, Clary.. Don't you understand? I'd rather be dead”

“People don't change. There are two kinds of people in the world: winners and losers. Black and white. I don't know where gray fits in, or if you can even live in that shade.”

“War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.”

“Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line how it was my favorite in all the world. But there's a lot of bad stuff coming.”

“The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.”

“The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.”

“You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not… No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.”

“O brave new world that has such people in it.”

“When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.”

“How ironic is it to see a bumper sticker that says 'Jesus is the answer' next to a bumper sticker supporting the war in Iraq, as if to says 'Jesus is the answer - but not in the real world.”

“Traitor!" Hera shouted. "You meddlesome, D-list goddess! You aren't worthy to pour my wine, much less rule the world.”

“Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.”

“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.”

“I will never give up… I will never give up! As long I'm still breathing in this world… As long I'm still standing, I will never give up!!!”

“The world, right now, is only us.”

“The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.”

“I know
it’s stupid to not own a gun yet have

so many triggers, but in some other world
gigantic seashells hold humans

to their ears and listen to the echo
of machines.”

“I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.”

“wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom”

“My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.”

“Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.”

“It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.”

“But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.”

“Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.”

“There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.”

“I get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that? I know a place in Payette, Idaho, where a cook and a waitress and a manager put everything they've got into laying a chicken-fried steak on you.”

“Calvin: From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success…. I'm just here to cash in.
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“If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.”

“The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.”

“beleive in yourself and the world will be at your feet”

“Billions of things are going on in this world. You can think about it all you want, but life is still going to keep on happening.”

“If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.”

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”

“Maybe I'm wrong," Mom said. "Maybe the world really is coming to an end."
"Should I try Fox News?" I asked.
Mom shuddered. "We're not that desperate," she said.”

“Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up a world where my needs wouldn´t exist at all.”

“Lets dedicate ourselves to what the ancient greeks wrote so many years ago, to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that”

“And, even yet, I dare not let it languish,
Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain;
Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,
How could I seek the empty world again?”

“here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out”

“I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.”

“You must learn to end the wars in your world by ending them in your minds.”

“The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.”

“You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest,
and I smile, and am silent,
and even my soul remains quiet:
it lives in the other world
which no one owns.
The peach trees blossom,
The water flows.”

“To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.”

“How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?”

“In his eyes I saw all the other possibilities. The dream-world possibilities. The fairytale possibilities. The seemingly impossible possibilities.”

“And that is just the point… how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?”

“We two make banquets of the plainest fare
In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure…
For us life always moves with lilting measure
We two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure”

“I don't believe in fate," she said at last. "But I do believe in… loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents — happy or otherwise — and taking advantage of these.”

“After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on.”

“If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.”

“I've seen the world and I'm tired now.”

“She felt as if the world were tilting and she was clinging on helplessly, trying to keep from tumbling into a black abyss.”

“In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.”

“All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.”

“There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.”