This World famous quotes
04-24-2025
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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 -
In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
-- Aeschylus -
In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal (or imperishable, - "impérissable", Fr.) good.
-- African Spir -
The most important thing in this world is faith. Without faith you cannot communicate with God.
-- Akiane Kramarik -
We treat this world of ours as though we have a spare in the trunk.
-- Al Bernstein -
I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.
-- Albert Camus -
Witnessing the pain of others is the very least you can do in this world. Its how you know that when your own turn comes, someone will be there with you.
-- Alix Ohlin -
It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
-- Andre Gide -
Though I carry always some ill-nature about me, yet it is, I hope, no more than is in this world necessary for a preservative.
-- Andrew Marvell -
The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.
-- Arthur Miller -
Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…†(p. 141).
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
Everything in this world depends upon will.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
I brought you in this world, and I can take you out!
-- Bill Cosby -
We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.
-- Blanche Willis Howard -
I do not want to bring anything when I die, my knowledge should be shared with this world,
-- Bob Sadino -
In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.
-- Brad Meltzer -
If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Nothing is given to you in this world, so you have to work hard.
-- Cain Velasquez -
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
-- Charles Dudley Warner -
It is our duty to make this world a better place for women.
-- Christabel Pankhurst -
In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.
-- Christopher Pike -
I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.
-- Craig Silvey -
People don't always get what they deserve in this world.
-- Daniel Handler -
If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, than capitalism is not long for this world.
-- David Harvey -
We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God.
-- David Platt -
There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.
-- Dmitri Mendeleev -
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
-- E. M. Forster -
You can be effective in this world without stress.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.
-- Edmund Husserl -
Why is it the Mongols of this world always tell us they're defending us against the Mongols?
-- Edward Whittemore -
In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin -
Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.
-- Elihu Burritt -
Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.
-- Elle Varner -
I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.
-- Ellen Page -
I don't know why this world keeps turning, round and round. But I wish it would stop and let me off right now!
-- Eminem -
We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential.
-- Emmitt Smith -
Everything in this world is designed to oppose your forward movement!
-- Eric Ludy -
My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.
-- Eugenie de Guerin -
In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
-- Euripides -
I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.
-- Fareed Zakaria -
There are many things we do not want in this world. Let us not just mourn them; let us change them
-- Ferdinand Marcos -
See, ya are what ya are in this world. That's either one of two things: Either you're somebody, or you ain't nobody.
-- Frank Lucas -
I know I am no better than anyone else in this world.
-- Frankie Muniz -
I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects.
-- Frantz Fanon -
To leave this world a better person, and for me to not be the only one who knows it.
-- Gavin DeGraw -
Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?
-- Gene Stratton-Porter -
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.
-- George Mason -
[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.
-- George Orwell -
This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.
-- Gerald Massey -
If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.
-- Gertrude Atherton -
When we're in the water, we're not in this world.
-- Gertrude Ederle -
You have something in this world, so stand for it.
-- Ghassan Kanafani -
How can we expect something positive to come from all the negative that we put into this world?
-- Gloria Estefan -
I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.
-- Greta Garbo -
The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.
-- Gustave Flaubert -
If Allah created you for this world, He would have created you without death.
-- Habib Umar bin Hafiz -
If you are looking for happiness in this world (dunya), you're in the wrong place.
-- Hamza Yusuf -
By honoring your words you are honored in this world.
-- Harbhajan Singh Yogi -
A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world.
-- Harry Vardon -
There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.
-- Haruki Murakami -
The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules!
-- Heath Ledger -
There’s great beauty on this world if you just have the eyes to see it.
-- Henry Travers -
There's no such thing as an "absolute guarantee" in this world.
-- Hidetaka Suehiro -
There are many questions in this world that have no answers.
-- Hiromu Arakawa -
Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah
-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya -
The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
-- Immaculee Ilibagiza -
If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.
-- Isabel Allende -
The people of this world must unite or they will perish.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer -
You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go.
-- Jack Kerouac -
All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.
-- Jacques Lacan -
I'm going to imprint myself on everything in this world.
-- Jaden Smith -
All The Rules In This World Were Made By Someone No Smarter Than You. So Make Your Own.
-- Jaden Smith -
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
-- James A. Garfield -
Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.
-- James Agee -
You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.
-- James M. Barrie -
When I first came into this world, Elvis was already fat.
-- Jane Wagner -
As good as you've been to this world is as good as it's gonna be right back to you.
-- Janis Joplin -
In this world we must help one another.
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
Tears are the showers that fertilize this world ...
-- Jean Ingelow -
My time on this world is limited, but the things I can do with that time are not.
-- Jeb Corliss -
If you wanna get to heaven, get out of this world.
-- Jenny Lewis -
The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people "find it.
-- Jimmy Buffett -
But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become.
-- Joan D. Chittister -
He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on; and it will be so whilst we live in this world.
-- John Owen -
There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
-- Jonathan Swift -
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
-- Jonathan Swift -
If there is one thing that is constant in this world, it is the power of music.
-- Josh Groban -
In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.
-- Juliana Hatfield
