Quotes About World

Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.

I live full-time in the world of omnivores, and I've never wanted to leave. But the Standard American Diet (yes, it's SAD) got to me as it gets to almost everyone in this country.

I just feel like there hasn't been enough time away from all this other stuff and into this new world or sort of big world that it hasn't worn off yet.

For a long time, the for-profit world has told us in the not-for-profit sector to behave more like businesses.

Time has come to show India's strength to the world. Lets recognise our demographic dividend & present image of a Skilled India to the world.

Human nature appears to be just the same, all over the world

There are more chickens than a man can know in this world, but an unprovoked kindness is the rarest of birds.

When they came it was as if the lord of the world had arrived, and had brought all the glories of its kingdoms along; and when they went they left a calm behind which was like the deep sleep which follows an orgy.

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who have gone on to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

Satan must have been pretty simple, even according to the New Testament, or he wouldn't have led Christ up on a high mountain and offered him the world if he would fall down and worship him. That was a manifestly absurd proposition, because Christ, as the Son of God, already owned the world; and besides, what Satan showed him was only a few rocky acres of Palestine. It is just as if some one should try to buy Rockefeller, the owner of all the Standard Oil Company, with a gallon of kerosene.

It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't distributed right.

SATURDAY morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and

It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same.

The ancients considered the Pillars of Hercules the head of navigation and the end of the world. The information the ancients didn't have was very voluminous.

As usual, the fickle, unreasoning world took Muff Potter to its bosom and fondled him as lavishly as it had abused him before. But that sort of conduct is to the world's credit; therefore it is not well to find fault with it.

it was as bright as glory, and you'd have a little glimpse of tree-tops a-plunging about away off yonder in the storm, hundreds of yards further than you could see before; dark as sin again in a second, and now you'd hear the thunder let go with an awful crash, and then go rumbling, grumbling, tumbling, down the sky towards the under side of the world, like rolling empty barrels down-stairs—where

In all ages of the world this eminently plausible fiction has lured the obtuse infant to financial ruin and disaster.

SATURDAY morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh

We had heard a world of talk about the marvellous beauty of Lake Tahoe, and finally curiosity drove us thither to see it.

The world is made wrong, kings should go to school to their own laws at times, and so learn mercy. -Edward Tudor

The ruminations are mine, let the world be yours.

Both pieces are similar in one way:what one could believe, one doubts. Nicoise because one depends upon the moral sense of the filmmaker, The Navidson Record because one depends upon the moral sense of the world.

and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind

It is understood that the world does not want to be understood. The world would not be this world if it did.