World Quotes

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Ronald Reagan

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

Sir Henry Taylor

We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a sister.

Mary Daly

My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as laws of nature

Albert Einstein

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

Kurt Vonnegut

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

Jodi Picoult

...and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

Stephen King

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

Richard Armour

I do so hate to leave this world

Bertrand Russell

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

George Bush

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

W. C. Fields

The world is governed by opinion.

William Ellery Channing

The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

Sir Walter Raleigh

One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good thing in that it conferred 'experience' on the despised and much-deceived wife. Well, the main 'experience' involved the comprehensive fouling-up of the nation's health-care arrangements, so as to make them considerably worse than they had been before and to create an opening for the worst-of-all-worlds option of the so-called HMO, combining as it did the maximum of capitalist gouging with the maximum of socialistic bureaucracy. This abysmal outcome, forgiven for no reason that I can perceive, was the individual responsibility of the woman who now seems to think it entitles her to the presidency.

Christopher Hitchens

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.

Stephen King

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything

Albert Einstein

And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle.

Stan Dunn

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde

The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.

Charles de Gaulle