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World Quotes


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


"When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low."


"You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays."


"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."


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


"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."


"I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly."


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


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


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


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


"We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it."


"It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical."


"It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me."


"He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies."


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


"If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world."


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


"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."


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


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


"I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me."


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


"It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world."


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


"We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship."


"That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs."


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


"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"


"The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong."


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


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


"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."


"The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world."


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