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Quotes About World

My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.
~ Emily Watson
Love is enough, though the world be awaning.
~ William Morris
With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.
~ William Morris
Endowed with a clear intellect, warm in affection, and confiding in friendship, he was from the boyhood devoted heart and soul to the Prophet. Simple, quiet, and unambitious, when in after days he obtained the rule of half of the Moslem world, it was rather thrust upon him than sought
~ William Muir
The power of finance to effect such important transitions in world history is that it moves economic value forward and backward through time.
~ William N. Goetzmann
To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well.
~ William Nicholson
But the [Eden] story takes a dramatically different turn: it tells of the couple succumbing to fear, blame, and the will to power, which from Cain and Lamech to today continues to engulf the world.
~ William P. Brown
To claim the world as created is to claim God's care for it and our responsibility to care for it.
~ William P. Brown
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
~ William Penn
Excess in Apparel is another costly Folly. The very Trimming of the vain World would cloath all the naked one.
~ William Penn
True godliness doesn't turn us out of the world, but enables us to live better in it, and excites our endeavors to mend it... Christians should keep the helm and guide the vessel to its port; not meanly steal out at the stern of the world and leave those that are in it without a pilot to be driven by the fury of evil times upon the rock or sand of ruin.
~ William Penn
All I know is that things seem to happen. And, my dear, there are lunatic asylums all over the world filled with people who dabbled in the occult.
~ William Peter Blatty
But if all of the evil in the world makes you think that there might be a devil, Chris, how do you account for all the good?
~ William Peter Blatty
Good luck with the world.
~ William Peter Blatty
Past generations were most concerned with the material side of creation: How could something come from nothing? Cosmologists now recognize another, informational side of creation. Creation of a world entails above all information. The state of everything—everywhere—at every time—must be defined. The most economical way to specify such information is through a complexity-generating recursion of physical law.
~ William Poundstone
Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality.
~ William R Allen
The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality.
~ William R. Inge
The Russians' wanton though often ineffectual attacks on civilians generated a wave of moral outrage all over the world. Typical was the reaction of former U.S. president Herbert Hoover, who denounced the Russian air attacks as a throwback to "the morals and butchery of Genghis Khan.
~ William R. Trotter
The command "Be fruitful and multiply" was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two people.
~ William Ralph Inge
A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all. To transmit that feeling, he writes.
~ William Sansom
Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: The Mark Inside.
~ William Seward Burroughs
Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
~ William Shakespeare
I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world
~ William Shakespeare
The royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea.
~ William Shakespeare