Quotes About World

I never understand when people say, 'Do you do comedy or tragedy?' I don't think they're very much different. They both have to be true, and there isn't a great play in the world that doesn't have funny parts to it - as 'Salesman' does, as 'King Lear' does. The whole idea is to reflect life in some way, which means surely you have to have both.

We are all on this journey of life together, each given certain gifts to make this world a better place and to help make one another's burdens a little lighter along the way.

One thing to remember about this prediction: "President Trump" was the punchline to the setup, "What's the dumbest thing we could imagine America doing?" When the news of the world becomes jokes on The Simpsons, that's satire. But when jokes on The Simpsons become the news of the world—well, that's just fucked up.

In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.

The artist inhabits a strange world, an insubstantial world of shadows and essences, one whose boundaries are perhaps more permeable than normal

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.

and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out!

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

Zach was sitting in the passenger seat, seemingly calm and happy and content with his place in the world. The git.

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.

I could see the bird soaring away. And then I realised there was no more shutting of your eyes to the truth,no salvation in being blindfolded, no dream and reality,no being awake or asleep. Everything is one and the same continuing eternal day and world, coiling around you like a snake. This is when I saw vast, remote happiness as being small but close.

It's a filthy world, Solomon. No one is clean. Living makes you dirty.

It's a filthy world... No one is clean. Living makes you dirty.

The world judges girls harshly for improprieties--and even accidents. It's wrong, but it is the way this sinful world works.

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world.

I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world. Then I just lap it up. There is no difference between Ripley from Alien and any Katherine Heigl character. They're all participating in the same level of made-up awesomeness, and I enjoy every second of it.

There is no utopia. There never will be. There is only the valiant attempt of each person to live spiritually in a world where spirituality is almost impossible.

We create the world and ourselves;

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.