Quotes About World

In a season of increasing tumult in the world . . . , the Spirit promised has produced a sense of optimism about what lies ahead, even as the commotion in the world seems to increase. Henry B. Eyring, "Fear Not to Do Good," Ensign, November 2017

My hope is that we can leave behind preconceived notions and search for what the world and the Bible actually tell us about the God of creation.

The joy and the grief we encounter on our journey are not always the direct workings of God, which of course means that we too are partners in the making of our world.

Nothing in this world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.

It was a year when Frankie thought about the world. And she did not see it as a round school globe, with the countries neat and different-coloured. She thought of the world as huge and cracked and loose and turning a thousand miles an hour.

Most people go on living their everyday life: frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that has been performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

Instinct is a powerful form of natural energy, perhaps comparable in humans to electricity or even atomic energy in the mechanical world.

Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you!

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

When the world has once begun to use us ill, and afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.

Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die. Take him, and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.

His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, This was a man!

Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get in accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world.

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

The Night has a thousand eyes, The Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun.

I rather like the world. The flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

Time is the soul of this world.

It has been discovered experimentally that you can draw laughter from an audience anywhere in the world, of any class or race, simply by walking on a stage and uttering the words "I am a married man."

There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.

Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.