World Quotes - Page 887

It's a funny old world.

When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese were furious to see that their empire covered so little of it. For centuries the Chinese had thought of themselves as 'The Middle Kingdom', that is the centre of the civilized world. To see otherwise was a shock.

Putting the World to Rights

Russia is bent on world domination.

He saved the world, but he shattered mine.

The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.

The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.

A woman’s duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes… to speak and act in defiance of convention.

A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

It was hard to believe there was so much money in all this bitter and poverty-stricken world. So much money, so very much money, and someone else had it, someone who took it lightly and didn't need it.

She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.

But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado,sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life,and dropping her down in the midst of this still,haunted desolation.

Life is in one of its smoother phases ... I've no responsibilities in the world except friends and students and cherishing the life of the world -- and the belief that there is enough love to go round.

I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw

Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious political reason for taking such a position because it could then be established that dementia-like conditions are not part of the spiritual/theological domain, but undeniably biological in origin and therefore not attributable with moral implications.

This is a world of process, not a world of things.

Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.

The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future.

Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.

Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.

That notion that we're in the post-racism, post-sexism world is so not true.

When people think the world of you, be careful with them.

That's the nature of comedy. You always want to be improving and growing and changing with what's happening in the world. That's when comedy is most effective.

My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.