Quotes About World

Although European protest marches had focused mainly on the United States for the previous six years, it was the leadership of Western Europe who most strongly opposed creating a world without nuclear weapons.

In a certain sense, you do write to seduce the world, but when it happens, you begin to feel like a whore. The disparity between your life and your work turns out to be as great as ever. And the people seduced by your work are usually seduced by all the wrong reasons.

I could become servile, cloying, saccharinely sweet: the whole package of lies that passes in the world as femininity.

I didn't want to risk being called all the things women writers (even good women writers) are called: clever, witty, bright, touching, but lacks scope.' I wanted to write about the whole world.

My duty not to remain passive in a world which seems to be moving toward self-chosen catastrophe.

At last she said: 'I can help you, I know I can, I will. But it is a big task for a small person. Do children in your world usually perform such tasks?' Nathan thought of all the books he had ever read, of the Pevensies, Colin and Susan, Harry Potter, Lyra Belacqua, and a hundred others. 'All the time,' he said.

There is so much unnecessary loneliness in the world. Marriage is not necessarily the answer, at least not for women. But an enduring friendship is a great gift and a blessing.

Indubitably, eighteenth-century literature contains much that nineteenth-century historians might identify as 'domestic ideology', yet these themes were far from revolutionary. The dialectical polarity between home and world is an ancient trope of western writing; the notion that women were uniquely fashioned for the private realm is at least as old as Aristotle.

These were the women who, in Eliza Haywood's understanding, were not 'placed so high as to have their actions above the Reach of Scandal', but those 'who have Reputations to lose, and who are not altogether so independent, as not to have it their Interest to be thought well of by the World'.

Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.

It is not easy to be brave. This world discourages authenticity from infancy. It is not easy to do what you just did. It is not easy to just . . . speak. Or even to wait to speak, for that matter.

A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call "war" and "commerce." These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.

Ocean , n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet… we may rightly call a New World… a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.

I ask myself, is it just a wild flight of imagination to conceive of a world without war … but someone must try … " Julia Grace Wales

I look at the world and my own life as if I were a stranger. I wish for nothing, except perhaps that time would stop.

Siento que no hayamos podido daros un mundo donde la gente no necesite protestar.

Esfahan, nesf-é jahan! is what the Persians of today say. 'Isfahan, half of the world!

And justice lies in appearance, at least in this world, at least in the eyes of the multitude.

There are things, elements in the world, that continue to exist, for whatever time, completely liberated from our delusion. They press us also, and we, of course, if we are to preserve the sullen but comfortable vacuum we inhabit, must deny that anyone else could possibly tolerate what we all agree is a hellish world.

Walk it slowwhere you gowalk it slow…We in the worldPoor as dirtDon't get some rhythmSomebody'll get hurtthe world is blackthe world is greenthe world is red, yellow, brownthe world is mean