All Quotes

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
‐‐ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
‐‐ Yehuda Amichai

The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.
‐‐ Deborah Harkness

The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both.
‐‐ Freeman Dyson

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch

The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever land they come, speak the same language. The lessons of competition are lessons for life.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.
‐‐ John le Carre

The world of 'Terra Nova' as we joined it... there is a certain amount of prosperity there, and in fact I would say that I was a bit surprised when I first got there to see how it had all developed and how sophisticated the colony was - I had envisioned it being a bit more Swiss Family Robinson, but that wasn't my call.
‐‐ Stephen Lang

The world of the flapper - live free, wild and young - that energy is intoxicating. It's nice to inject that into the more controlled 'Downton' way of living.
‐‐ Lily James

The world of the homeless is a tough and interesting world.
‐‐ Paul Dano

The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.
‐‐ Kenneth Oppel

The world of the stage and the performance on the stage usually does not tend to translate very well - it doesn't tend to hold very well - once cameras are on it; it's not like it's terrible or embarrassing or bad anything, but, I, as an actor, would perform a role differently for an audience than I would for just cameras.
‐‐ Jason Alexander

The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.
‐‐ Charlie Watts

The world of TV debates is antiquated. What looked smart and modern in 1960, with Kennedy versus Nixon, looks quaint and over-rehearsed between Obama and Romney. We need a new format; even if we have the same moderators and candidates, there needs to be a more nuanced way for audiences to connect with and shape presidential debates.
‐‐ Ruzwana Bashir

The world of wine is more creative than the world of cooking.
‐‐ Alain Ducasse

The world of women fascinates me, probably because my sister and I were always together as children in our mother's salon after school and after ballet classes. We used to talk about what we saw: the different ladies who would come in, all with their distinctive personalities.
‐‐ Monica Cruz

The world of womens' prisons is indeed a microcosm.
‐‐ Susanna Moore

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
‐‐ E. B. White

The world other than as advertised can be an amazing place.
‐‐ John Burdett

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
‐‐ Nathaniel Hawthorne

The world owes an ecological debt to the African continent.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
‐‐ Anton Chekhov

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
‐‐ Louis D. Brandeis

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.
‐‐ Anderson Cooper

The world record is like you we went to the theater to see this movie, and it was really good, and it had an unexpected ending, and you left the theater saying, 'Wow, that was such a great movie.'
‐‐ Ashton Eaton

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.
‐‐ Maurice Greene

The world relies upon, and America must rely upon, a strong military.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

The world remains ever the same.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
‐‐ Franz Schubert

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.
‐‐ James Thomson

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.
‐‐ Milton Friedman

The world's a better place since I chose music.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.
‐‐ George Villiers

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.
‐‐ Tim Allen

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
‐‐ Abraham Cowley

The world's a small place and people are watching; and, you know, somebody disappears, the family knows and their colleagues know, and so eventually, these things do get out.
‐‐ Jane Mayer

The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.
‐‐ David Lee Roth

The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.
‐‐ Frederick Locker-Lampson

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

The world's becoming a better place, and again it is up to us to make sure we're doing the right things.
‐‐ Michael Corbat

The world's been pretty good at coming up with new ways of doing things.
‐‐ James Mirrlees

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
‐‐ Chanakya

The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest market opportunities. And that's a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get the gratitude of the world and become a billionaire in the process.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed by gold. Governments hold on to it as a kind of magic symbol, a way of reassuring people that their money is real.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.
‐‐ Rowan Williams

The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.
‐‐ Sufjan Stevens

The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.
‐‐ Sal Albanese

The world's longest-serving dictator has just stepped down and handed over power. The national project of Cuba, which was Fidel's vision, is now finished. It's something - a small something, but still something.
‐‐ Joe Garcia