Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.

Richard Holbrooke

A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and far more dangerous to peace and stability.

Richard Dawkins

Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion.

Robert Pattinson

I haven't found one place in the world yet where I could disappear.

Robert M. Pirsig

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

Robert M. Pirsig

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

Robert Falcon Scott

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.

Robert Farrar Capon

The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls.

Walt Disney

I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train.

Walt Disney

Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!

Washington Irving

The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

Walter Kaufmann

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire…. ….The world winks at dishonesty. the world does not call it dishonesty

Walter Kirn

Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.

Walter Lippmann

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Voltaire

History is the study of the world's crime

Voltaire

You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

William Empson

This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it.

William Ernest Henley

Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.

William Stafford

You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.

William Stafford

And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world.

William Stafford

When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world around you will be a sort of salvation.

William Stafford

The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying the things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing the things you do not have to hear dulls your hearing. And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world.

William Irwin Thompson

A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.

William C. Bryant

[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on.

William Butler Yeats

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

William Butler Yeats

The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

William Butler Yeats

...I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made...

Walter Wriston

Information is a business in itself. It is also something that has made control impossible ... you cannot get customers to accept prices in one place when they know there's a better deal elsewhere. It's a whole new world.

Walter Savage Landor

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

Walter Gilbert

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

Vladimir Putin

The European Union's enlargement is part of the natural process of integration and globalisation that is underway in the world today.

Vladimir Putin

Europe and the United States are not the whole world.

Vladimir Putin

We are actively preparing a partial privatization of Rosneft itself. It is the best proof that our major plans have remained unchanged. Another example would be one of the largest Russian diamond mining companies in the world. We are privatizing part of our stake in that as well.