World Quotes

Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet. But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the g

Albert Einstein

All the world's a stage.

William Shakespeare

The successful person and the unsuccessful person are looking at the same world; the difference between them is what they see.

Steve Maraboli

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true

Bertrand Russell

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.

Henry David Thoreau

I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.

Bob Dylan

The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.

Alexander Brome

If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle.

Rita Mae Brown

He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Anne Sexton

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.

Finley Peter Dunne

Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record -- Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages -- you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?

Barbara Ehrenreich

The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit -- not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviate from their graves.

Henry David Thoreau

There'll be spring every year without you. England still will be here without you.

Frederick Loewe

To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

Albert Einstein

I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.

Albert Einstein

For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.

Christina Rossetti

I tell you one thing -- if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.

Sri Sarada Devi