World famous quotes
04-23-2025
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
-- A. A. Gill -
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
-- A. Alfred Taubman -
The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
-- A. B. Simpson -
I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
-- A. C. Benson -
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
-- A. C. Benson -
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
-- A. D. Coleman -
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
-- A. E. Housman -
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
-- A. E. Housman -
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
-- A. E. Housman -
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
-- A. E. Housman -
First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.
-- A. E. Waite -
Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.
-- A. J. Hartley -
I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
-- A. J. Liebling -
The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.
-- A. J. Liebling -
In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
-- A. J. Muste -
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.
-- A. Lee Martinez -
Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
-- A. N. Wilson -
STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.
-- A. O. Scott -
For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin.
-- A. P. Herbert -
The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.
-- A. Powell Davies -
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
-- A. R. Ammons -
My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us, the Oscars have unified us.
-- A. R. Rahman -
There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.
-- A. R. Rahman -
The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world,
-- A.C. Grayling -
If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.
-- A.C. Grayling -
The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable,
-- A.M. Homes -
Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.
-- A.S. King -
The world is full of assholes. What are you doing to make sure you're not one of them?
-- A.S. King -
There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.
-- Aaron Allston -
The floating world is the realm of the graphic designer
-- Aaron Betsky -
The only morality in a cruel world is chance.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
There's 2 things I love in this world: Burritos and Murder
-- Aaron Hernandez -
Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.
-- Aaron Hill -
Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.
-- Aaron Huey -
Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
-- Aaron Koblin -
Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
-- Aaron Levie -
Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.
-- Aaron Levie -
Solve a real problem and the world is yours.
-- Aaron Patzer -
Observe the world around you everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do.
-- Aaron Patzer -
Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.
-- Aaron Siskind -
Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.
-- Aaron Spelling -
With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past.
-- Aaron Swartz -
What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?
-- Aaron Swartz -
Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
-- Aaron Swartz -
I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.
-- Aaron Swartz -
One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
-- Abba Eban -
I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.
-- Abba Kovner -
All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.
-- Abbey Lincoln -
When I'm with you, my world is complete. When I touch you, I understand the meaning of life. When I lost you, I completely shattered. You. Own. Me.
-- Abbi Glines -
He doesn't deserve it. he can have any girl in the world's love and he took yours. someone who deserves so much more than a summer fling
-- Abbi Glines -
I don’t want to lose you. I’m in love with you Blaire. I’ve never wanted anything or anyone the way I want you. I can’t imagine my world now without you in it.
-- Abbi Glines -
Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn
-- Abbi Glines -
A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith in Him who hung before all the world crucified for sinners, is a love which is hardly worth the name.
-- Abbott Eliot Kittredge -
I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.
-- Abby Sunderland -
I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.
-- Abby Sunderland -
Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
-- Abby Sunderland -
We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
-- Abdallah II -
The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
-- Abdallah II -
In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
-- Abdul Kalam -
My religion is humanitarianism , which is the basis of every religion in the world.
-- Abdul Sattar Edhi -
The world [is] now seeing might is right.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
-- Abel Ferrara -
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
-- Aberjhani -
When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.
-- Abigail Scott Duniway -
But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.
-- Abolqasem Ferdowsi -
What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
-- Abraham Cahan -
For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
-- Abraham Cowley -
To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
-- Abraham Cowley -
All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
-- Abraham Cowley -
The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
-- Abraham Flexner -
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?
-- Abraham Kaplan -
God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
-- Abraham Kuyper -
The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.
-- Abraham Kuyper -
We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty
-- Abraham Lincoln -
In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.
-- Abraham Maslow
