World Quotes - Page 1020

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.

The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!

A unipolar world - one with only one power - makes sure that this space almost disappears. In a multipolar world this space multiplies. Therefore, there is nostalgia for a multipolar world.

When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more.

Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.

The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends.

Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed sourse,And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse.

I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.

The world only remembers the winners.

Proclaim your pride and bitterness loudly to the world, but to me speak softly, and tell me simply that she doesn't love you.

Just imagine dressing the two handsomest men in the world, and then getting this!

They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

Personally, I'm happier than I've ever been. So for me and my tiny little bubble the world is awesome, but I think that the world is in a pretty horrific state, especially at the momet with Syria.

The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.

Our world is defined by the pace of change. We can all change the world.

My biggest fear in the world is going broke and having to depend on someone else again.

The transcendent experience is common to every culture in the world.

At the beginning of the 20th century, there were less than 3 billion people on the earth, closer to 2 billion. By all measures that we can come up with right now,. with the lifestyle and consumption pattern of the Western industrial civilization, we can probably sustain about 2 billion people on this earth. We already have over 6 billion. China and India are aspiring to come on as industrial nations, aspiring to the lifestyle of the Western world, and it simply can't happen.

The world is no longer closed to us in the way it was in the past - present generations have unparalleled access to pretty much all corners of the globe.

In a world as empirical as ours, a youngster who does not know what he is good at will not be sure what he is good for.

The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.

The world is fine. Our place on it is precarious.