World Quotes - Page 701

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

The asymmetries of power that have shaped relations between the West and the rest of the world also exist in the realm of literary criticism.

My parents tried to keep me safe, but to me the world was not a safe place.

As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.

Providence seems to look after the chumps of this world; and, personally, I'm all for it.

I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I have yet to hear of it.

What dark secrets do you keep hidden from the world? Where would you go if no one could find you? What would you do if no one could see you?

But the thing with us was, we didn’t really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.

No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.

Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the psychological and economic motivations, the influences of the period in which they lived.

If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.'

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

It doen't matter what you've been through, where you come from... none of that matters. What matters is how you choose to love, how you choose to express that love through your work, through your family, through what you have to give to the world.

What's wrong with the world and what can we do to change it?

My life is about politics, a lot of about music, and a lot about things other than acting. I like traveling the world. But, what makes me want to stay in this business and keep doing this are movies when it's a true labor of love.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen

In a sick world even the hale are sick.

Do the very best that you can, in the things you do best, and you will know in thy soul, that you are the greatest success in the world.

Novels allow me to create a whole world.

You have to consistently be successful to be one of the top players in the world, and everything is possible in life.