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World Quotes


"If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again."


"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before."


"The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had its run, I think the characters can go on in perpetuity."


"This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it."


"Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue."



"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"



"If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft."


"You have to stand up for some things in this world."



"We're gonna totally sell out and try to dominate the world."


"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap."



"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."


"Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship."


"If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart."


"The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them."


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



"A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it."



"It's become more and more of a priority for me to tread as lightly as possible in the world."


"I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it."


"There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice."


"I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."



"We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us."


"When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear."


"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me."


"The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps."


"On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not."



"The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world."


"Those who are in vyavahar (worldly interactions), and who are indeed conducting themselves in the vyavahar; are known as worldly people [sansaari]. And 'Siddha' (absolutely enlightened Ones without a body) are not in the worldly conduct whatsoever. Therefore, they are known as the 'non-worldly' people [asansaari]! Then there are those who are in the worldly life and yet whose conduct is not in the worldly life at all; such 'Gnani Purush (the enlightened ones)' are called, 'non-worldly' (asansaari)."


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



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



"Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!"


"It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising."



"The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was."
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