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Quotes About World

Fashion is, perhaps by necessity, in a world of its own - one that only rarely overlaps with anything resembling real life. This fantasy and exoticism is part of its appeal, of course.
~ Vince Aletti
The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
~ Colum McCann, TransAtlantic
The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics
It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.
~ Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.
~ Peter Shaffer, Equus
Well, Id say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I dont go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.
~ Roger Cohen
On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.
~ Roger Ebert
whereas there are many people in the world who can give life to others, there are but few who can help others to possess it.
~ Ruth Sawyer
The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.
~ Samuel Johnson
Life is chaotic and unpredictable. If a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, it could cause people at the opposite end of the globe to watch a Discovery Channel special on butterflies
~ Stephen Colbert
The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become
~ Milan Kundera
Life is tough - and you have to be tougher than life to change the world.
~ Sebastian Pinera
An ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.
~ Dylan Thomas
Which is the world? Of our two sleepings, which / Shall fall awake when cures and their itch / Raise up this red-eyed earth?
~ Dylan Thomas
Fear not the waking world, my mortal, Fear not the flat, synthetic blood, Nor the heart in the ribbing metal. Fear not the tread, the seeded milling, The trigger and scythe, the bridal blade, Nor the flint in the lover's mauling.
~ Dylan Thomas
To surrender now is to pay the expensive ogre twice. Ancient woods of my blood, dash down to the nut of the seas. If I take to burn or return this world which is each man's work." ? Dylan Thomas, Collected Poems
~ Dylan Thomas
To surrender now is to pay the expensive ogre twice. Ancient woods of my blood, dash down to the nut of the seas if I take to burn or return this world which is each man's work.
~ Dylan Thomas
This is the world: the lying likeness of Our strips of stuff that tatter as we move Loving and being loth; The dream that kicks the buried from their sack And lets their trash be honoured as the quick. This is the world. Have faith.
~ Dylan Thomas
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. – Dylan Thomas
~ Dylan Thomas
I am the machine that reveals the world to you as only I alone am able to see it
~ Dziga Vertov
Belonging to the world of poetry,but fascinated by another world, she is always stretching out from her enchanted tree and snatching bits from the flux of daily life as they float past, and out of these bits she builds novels.
~ E M Forster
I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.
~ E. B. White
All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
~ E. B. White