Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Friedman

In the hyperconnected world, there is only “good” “better” and “best,

Thomas Beecham

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

Thomas Keneally

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

Thomas Keating

It is essential for world peace that the world religions make peace with each other. If they don't, we can hardly expect the nations of the world to lay down their arms.

Thomas Keating

Your relationship with God, others, yourself, and all creation keeps changing for the better. Most of the world's religions have developed maps to describe this process.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

Viggo Mortensen

I take my work seriously, but it's not the only thing that exists in the world.

Viggo Mortensen

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

Victoria Beckham

I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.

Victor Hugo

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

Victor Hugo

The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.

Victor Hugo

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Vernon Lee

A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

Vernon Howard

The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.

Veronica Roth

Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.

Veronica Roth

But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.

Veronica Roth

No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.

Veronica Roth

Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human

Richard Bach

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

Richard Bach

It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.

Richard Bach

Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?

Robert Frost

It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.

Rita Dove

What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?

Richard Dormer

I was fascinated by the world. I thought, "I just want to be a part of this world."

Rene Descartes

So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.

Rene Descartes

God alone is the author of all the motions in the world.

Rene Descartes

We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.

Rene Descartes

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

Thornton Wilder

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Thomas P. Campbell

The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture.

Thomas Nagel

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.

Thomas Huxley

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

Thomas Huxley

Next to being right in this world, the best of all things is to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will come out somewhere. If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently wrong, you must, some of these days, have the extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a fact, and that sets you all straight again.