The World Quotes

What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.

Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.

When you make peace with yourself, the world will mirror back that same level of peace.

We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.

Woman's world is her husband, her family, her children and her home. We do not find it right when she presses into the world of men.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood.

To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.

The world exists only when we think about it; creation stories are for children. In reality the world is created every moment.

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it’s given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it…just to be in the world, really.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.

It is not easy to be a pioneer but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.

Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it.

Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

It's about whatever I want to make it about. It's my world.

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.

Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams.

Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here.

In compassion lies the world's true strength.

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

I now let go of worn out things, worn out conditions, and worn out relationships. Divine order is now established and maintained in me and in my world.

Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

Go as far as you can, [young scientists]. The world needs you badly.

I've invented Twofacebook, the antisocial network. You start being friends w/entire world & defriend people one by one.

Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.

The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.

Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other.

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

And maybe there's no peace in this world, for us or for anyone else, I don't know. But I do know that, as long as we live, we must remain true to ourselves.

You can have all the potential in world, but unless you have confidence, you have nothing.

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.

What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.