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Quotes About World

Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with our faithless morality of payback and reward.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.
~ Arthur Miller
One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.
~ Sydney Pollack
It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.
~ Walter Kaufmann
You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world, going out and loving the real people God has put into your life.
~ Wendy Beckett
The world is a courtroom, but your life is the judge.
~ Uche Okafor
Embrace life and all that God gives you-but never let it contain you. This world is too small to contain you.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
Well, everything is constantly evolving and changing. That's what life is all about. But basically Hollywood has lost its focus as a film center. Films are now made all over the world.
~ Kenneth Anger
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
~ Phillips Brooks
The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen closely to our inner voice.
~ Oskar Kokoschka
It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.
~ Gwen Ifill
This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.
~ Janet Erskine Stuart
To take care of the world seemed, finally, a privilege rather than a burden. The Riddler had led them to life's greatest victory. They had found a home.
~ Janet Morris
Laughter is good medicine for the soul. Our world is desperately in need of more medicine.
~ Jim Stovall
Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.
~ Paul Harding, Tinkers
There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.
~ Storm Jameson
If Heaven is up, I'm going. I know I'm right in my heart. This world is not my home. This life will soon be gone, and, one day, I'll spread my wings, as an angel, and fly away.
~ Aaron Dontez Yates
You can find tea in a tea cup.. but cannot find world in a world cup.
~ Arjuna Ranatunga
This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.
~ C. S. Lewis
The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.
~ Yukio Mishima
Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; Oh life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.
~ Thomas Kyd
Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.
~ Nicole Krauss
The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea