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Quotes About World

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.
~ C. S. Lewis
I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, or calfskin, or morocco, but I like it better when, in the shape of a man, it goes out into the world-a Bible illustrated.
~ Thomas De Witt Talmage
There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor.
~ William Shakespeare
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I'll do my best. But you're right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
~ D. H. Lawrence
I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world face.
~ David Cameron
The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.
~ Dorothy Day
A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.
~ E. W. Howe
The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.
~ Edward Bellamy
What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.
~ Erich Fromm
When one man of popularity can let the world know the problem, he might lose a few dollars himself. He might lose his life. But he's helping millions.
~ Muhammad Ali
When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.
~ Oswald Chambers
The world exists for the education of each man.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.
~ Alessandro Baricco
You want success on different levels. I wouldn't be honest if I said I don't look over there in the pop world and say, "Man, that's attractive" - Adele selling 100,000 albums a week. A week.
~ Anthony Hamilton
It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."
~ Ben Bradlee
At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
If one will fix his heart in such a way and assist the world and its people, he will have the devotion of the men who see and hear him.
~ Hojo Shigetoki
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo