World Quotes | Beyond Motive

"When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate."

Robert Crumb, American Artist

World,

9

"Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?"

Quentin Crisp, English Writer

World,

7

"The U.S. is by far the biggest exporter of arms in the world. It was true during the Clinton administration, and it's true during the Bush administration. It's bipartisan."

Andrew Niccol, New Zealander Filmmaker

World,

6

"One hardly saves a world without ruling it."

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher

World,

6

"The world is in motion, as it seems."

Utada Hikaru, Japanese Musician

World,

5

"The greatest religions convert the world through stories."

Ben Okri, Nigerian Poet

World,

5

"China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world."

Sellapan Ramanathan, Singaporean Statesman

World,

5

"I feel great identification with the developing world."

Bianca Jagger, Nicaraguan Celebrity

World,

5

"If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse."

Abu Bakr, Saudi Arabian Statesman

World, Saudiarabian

5

"I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils."

Richard Leakey, Kenyan Environmentalist

World,

5

"The world is always in movement."

V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadian Novelist

World,

5

"We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world."

Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan Statesman

World,

5

"When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world."

Zahi Hawass, Egyptian Scientist

World,

4

"The whole world is run on bluff."

Marcus Garvey, Jamaican Publisher

World,

4

"I'm the slowest driver in the world."

Anthony Hopkins, Welsh Actor

World,

4

"We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan."

Shaukat Aziz, Pakistani Politician

World,

4

"Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world."

Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Author

World,

3

"Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me."

Lennart Meri, Estonian Statesman

World,

3

"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog."

Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

World,

3

"The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper."

Stanislaw Lec, Polish Poet

World,

3

"The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst."

Jan Hammer, Czech Musician

World,

3

"One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all."

Abba Eban, Israeli Diplomat

World,

3

"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself."

Wallace Stevens, American Poet

World,

3

"We can remake the world daily."

Paul Wellstone, American Politician

World,

3

"The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate."

Jessamyn West, American Author

World,

3

"That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world."

Lennart Meri, Estonian Statesman

World,

2

"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."

Alphonse de Lamartine, French Poet

World,

2

"The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world."

Cory Doctorow, Canadian Journalist

World,

1

"Nowadays it would be reasonable to have an annual world championship."

Boris Spassky, Russian Celebrity

World,

1

"Tis not too late to seek a newer world."

Alfred Lord Tennyson, English Poet

World,

1

"In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever."

Niklaus Wirth, Swiss Scientist

World,

1

"I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be."

Ivan Lendl, Czechoslovakian Athlete

World, Years

1

"The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined."

Martin Yan, Chinese Celebrity

World,

1

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me."

Cao Cao, Chinese Statesman

World,

1

"It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way."

Warren Ellis, British Author

World,

1

"The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things."

William Ames, English Philosopher

World, Eternity, Existence, Present

1

"There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more."

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian Educator

World,

1

"We're a superpower with a Third World grid."

Bill Richardson, American Politician

World,

1

"We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute."

Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish Revolutionary

World,

1

"The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative."

E. B. White, American Writer

World,

1

"I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit."

Nigel Mansell, British Athlete

World,

1

"A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

World,

1

"I do not live in the world of sobriety."

Oliver Reed, English Actor

World,

1

"You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens."

Frederik Pohl, American Writer

World,

1

"In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world."

Samuel P. Huntington, American Sociologist

World,

1

"Where there is Torah it sustains the world."

Ovadia Yosef, Iraqi Clergyman

World,

1

"It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go."

Randy Travis, American Musician

World,

"The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns."

Francis Picabia, French Artist

World,

"There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers."

Ralph Ellison, American Author

World,

"Quentin wanted to create this special world in which everybody walks around with a samurai sword, extras in the airport, a special little place in the airplane to stick your samurai sword."

David Carradine, American Actor

World,