world quotes

“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.”

— Jerry Seinfeld

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.”

— Marlene Dietrich

“You supposed to be able to do anything in this world. That's what Martin Luther King told me.”

“When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.”

— David Bowie

“I just feel out of this world sometimes.”

“The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.”

— Samuel Johnson

“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.”

— William Shakespeare

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.”

“Family is the most important thing in the world.”

— Princess Diana

“If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.”

“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”

— George Washington Carver

“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.”

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.”

— Richard Bach

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”

“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. ”

— Winston Churchill

“I’m in the world where things are taken, never given. How long they choose to love you will never be your decision.”

“The world is full of opportunities, and I want to try as many as I possibly can.”

— Evangeline Lilly

“Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me.”

— Lillie Langtry

“We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.”

— James Barrie

“In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.”

— Leo Buscaglia

“The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.”

“If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”

— Michael Jackson

“As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.”

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