World Quotes - Page 996

The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of the social universe, a single spinster preternatural is unlikely to cause one undue distress.

My first objective is to win against No. 1 in the world.

God, the world is so f - ked up, and we all have to do something about it.

He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.

I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.

That was the challenge. How can you tell the story here and make sure it goes the same way on the other side of the world?

The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.

From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end

The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.

It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.

There is truly no other business in the world like making movies. It's unique, it's extremely demanding and difficult, but it's also the most rewarding.

Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.

Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder. "Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply. "Such beauty has power," Adelaida said hotly. "You can overturn the world with such beauty.

It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world now seemed created for me alone: if I shot myself the world would cease to be at least for me. I say nothing of its being likely that nothing will exist for anyone when I am gone, and that as soon as my consciousness is extinguished the whole world will vanish too and become void like a phantom , as a mere appurtenance of my consciousness, for possibly all this world and all these people are only me myself.

I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.' 'Love life more than the meaning of it?' 'Yes, certainly. Love it regardless of logic, as you say. Yes, most certainly regardless of logic, for only then will I grasp its meaning. That's what I've been vaguely aware of for a long time. Half your work is done, Ivan: you love life. Now you must try to do the second half and you are saved.

If you're dirty, what in this world isn't?!

Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger.

To the fool-king belongs the world.

For the world is only governed by self-interest.

There is a nobility in the world of manners.

This world is the will to power and nothing besides!