Quotes About World

What men value in the world is not rights, but privileges.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

The space in a needle's eye is sufficient for two friends, but the whole world is scarcely big enough to hold two enemies. Solomon ibn Gabirol Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

His Majesty's dominions, on which the sun never sets.

The royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Motives and purposes are in the brain and heart of man. Consequences are in the world of fact.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

The world, like an accomplished hostess, pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget.

Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by.

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world, we must do something.

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty.

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

The way of the world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something; to secure it in this world, we must do something.

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.