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Quotes About World

I wonder now that I did not die; but if everything died that is full of wretchedness, your world would soon have but a sparse peopling.
~ Ouida
But many times, the secret-breathing world Whispers to thee, yet whispers with a voice Which memory shall warehouse as a shout;
~ Unknown
The helping hand is simply a sustained acceptance by the reader of the relation assumed by physical science to subsist between human consciousness on the one hand and, on the other, the familiar world of which that consciousness is aware.
~ Unknown
The world doesn't revolve around Tony [Iommi] ,' he said. 'There'll be other guitarists.' He was a good guy, my old man. But this time he was wrong. There were no other guitarists. Not like Tony.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
~ P. J. Harvey
There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
You must work--- we must all work To make the world worthy of its children.
~ Pablo Casals
What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
~ Pablo Picasso
No se podía andar por el mundo mendigando piezas arqueológicas robadas por expresidentes, sin que de vez en cuando no se sintiera un profundo ramalazo de pinche vergüenza nacional.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
To feel at home in this desperate world of ours is the surest sign that one has failed to recognize it.
~ Unknown
The world hangs like a heart-shaped locket around my neck.
~ Pam Farrel
This joy oscillation is the most powerful frequency on the planet and has the capability of radically uplifting the world.
~ Pam Grout
In the beginning , Renato had said, all of the world was America .
~ Pam Houston
However we treat the child, the child will treat the world.
~ Unknown
You both live in fantasy worlds of your own imagining, where you're the queen of the world and everyone does exactly as you expect, no matter how much they hate it. There has to be some give and take in marriage, you know.
~ Unknown
The whole world seemed to be wounded, broken, hurting.
~ Pamela Clare
Iain, addressing the Rangers at the end of the French & Indian war] "Never has the world see a war as this one, but you turned the tide of it, spillin' your blood to keep frontier families safe. Years from now, people will remember the Rangers, the sacrifices you made, the battles you fought, the victories you won. I pray that peace will follow you all your days.
~ Pamela Clare
Briskly aestheticizing politics, this predecessor of today's live-streaming militants outlined a likely endgame for a world in which, as Walter Benjamin wrote, the self-alienation of humankind 'has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order'.
~ Pankaj Mishra
They encourage the suspicion – potentially lethal among the hundreds of millions of people condemned to superfluousness – that the present order, democratic or authoritarian, is built upon force and fraud; they incite a broader and more apocalyptic mood than we have witnessed before. They also underscore the need for some truly transformative thinking, about both the self and the world.
~ Pankaj Mishra
How could, it was felt, people be so opposed to modernity, and all the many goods it had to offer to people around the world: equality, liberty, prosperity, toleration, pluralism and representative government.
~ Pankaj Mishra
Io non posso abituarmi a vivere in un mondo dove l'ascolto ha un prezzo, non posso delegarlo a una categoria professionale.
~ Unknown
Chess players tend to have the same biased attitude, convictions and irritants. e toward the game as they do toward the world, with their own likes and dislikes
~ Unknown
Passare dal norvegese al russo è cambiare mondo (...); trionfano le i, frequenti e variegate come le betulle.
~ Unknown