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Quotes About World

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
~ Victor Hugo
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
~ Hermann Hesse
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
~ John Cheever
Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.
~ George R. R. Martin
What a beautiful world this will be What a glorious time to be free
~ Donald Fagen
The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
The Lord said that He was giving us a new president who is better than we deserve. He represents a reprieve from a New World Order that the Church is not prepared to face at this time.
~ Paul Cain
After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world.
~ Tom Hayden
Each time we exhale, the world ends; when we inhale, there can be, if we allow it, rebirth and spiritual renewal. It all transpires inside of us. In our consciousness, in our hearts. All the time.
~ Tom Robbins
One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.
~ Dean Rusk
Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.
~ William Shakespeare
Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.
~ William Shakespeare
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.
~ Laini Taylor
This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower.
~ Jody Williams
Passionate, organized hatred is the element missing in all that we do to try to change the world. Now is the time to spread hate, hatred for the rich.
~ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.
~ Sam Harris
It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
~ Will Durant
We are taking a greater chance of having another crash at a time when the world is less capable of bearing the cost.
~ Raghuram Rajan
For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across the eternal seas of space and time.
~ Henry Beston
You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.
~ James Van Der Beek