Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice McDermott

The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.

Alice Munro

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Alice Hoffman

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Alice Cooper

Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.

Anne Michaels

Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.

Ann Voskamp

Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things

Ann Voskamp

Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps

Ann Voskamp

In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.

Alane Ferguson

It's a sad world we live in when a human being leaves so little of a mark that no one even realizes it when he's gone

Alber Elbaz

When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.

Albert J. Nock

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

Albert Ellis

The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed—such a probabilistic, uncertain world.

Albert Camus

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

Albert Camus

We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

Albert Camus

Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.

Albert Camus

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

A loveless world is a dead world.

Albert Camus

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

Albert Camus

We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.

Albert Camus

And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.

America Ferrera

What’s hard about being on the other side of the world is that sometimes the problem feels so big that changing one life doesn’t feel like enough. But it is.

America Ferrera

It's so reassuring to have a woman heroine who triumphs with more than just what she has on the outside who has more to offer the world than just a pretty picture.

Annie Besant

What is the constitution of the universe? The universe is the manifestation of the divine thought; the thought of God embodies itself in the thought-forms that we call worlds.

Annie Besant

After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.

Annie Lennox

The contrast of the world that we live in and the world that is here in Aspen and the world inhabited by women who have no resources, little or no, very few resources - huge disparity.

Annie Dillard

Having chosen this foolishness, I was a free being. How could the world ever stop me, how could I betray myself, if I was not afraid?

Annie Dillard

I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.

Annie Dillard

The world knew you before you knew the world.

Daniel Keyes

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?

Daniel J. Boorstin

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

Daniel J. Boorstin

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

Daniel Kahneman

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

D. A. Carson

God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.