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World Quotes


"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."


"Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses."


"The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent."


"But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader."


"The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings."


"Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is."


"In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world."


"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."


"There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy."


"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."


"A closet full of wire hangers can be the most dangerous place in the world."


"They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan."


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


"I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you."


"The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted."


"I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed."


"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them."


"I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received."


"To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual."


"So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground."


"I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati."


"Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?"


"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."


"As they say, anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation."


"I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year."


"The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world."


"I have one of the most beautiful places in the world in Orange County. That's a great place to live."


"A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed."


"If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation."


"But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world."


"One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good."


"You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that."


"I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it."


"The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop."


"He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible."


"Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad."
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