World Quotes

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
Gore Vidal

Century, Missed

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
Douglas MacArthur

Struggle, Brave, Against

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
Cat Stevens

Peace, Great, Hope

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Benjamin Disraeli

Faith, Great, Art

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
John Berger

Before, Rich, Poverty

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
Blaise Pascal

Through, Thought, Universe

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Thomas Carlyle

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
Noam Chomsky

Time, Government, May

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
Simone Weil

Giving, Attention, Unhappy

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
Dag Hammarskjold

Insecurity, Playing, Create

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
Taylor Swift

Friends, Before, After

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Mark Zuckerberg

Risk, Fail, Taking

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness, May, Find

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
Noam Chomsky

Live, Choose, Illusion

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Show, Seen

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
Charlotte Bronte

Nothing, Value, Full

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.
Colin Powell

Experience, Find, Talk

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
John W. Gardner

Simple, Political, Two

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Benjamin Disraeli

Democracy, Weary, Statesmen

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.
Princess Diana

Today, Greatest, Problem

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie

Work, Sleep, Start

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
Lewis Carroll

Great, Puzzle, Ah

Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
Lewis Carroll

Sky, Wonder, Above

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
Charles Dickens

Love, Makes, Baby

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Best, Often, Actions

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Best, Done, Often

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Red Cloud

Love, Peace, Good

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
Albert Schweitzer

Beautiful, Nothing, Wonder

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
Charles Kingsley

Rain, Sunshine, Down

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell

Friend, Real, Rest

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