Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elbert Hubbard

The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We will never have peace without friendship around the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.

Gertrude Stein

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

Gerard Way

Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.

Hayao Miyazaki

I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.

Hans Eysenck

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

Hans Blix

The world has gotten so interwoven.

Hans Kung

There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.

Hans Hofmann

Through a painting, we can see the whole world.

Hal Holbrook

We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.

Greta Garbo

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

Gordon Getty

I want to make the world better.

Gordon B. Hinckley

We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience.

Horace

That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.

Herman J. Mankiewicz

Imagine--the whole world wired to Harry Cohn's ass!

Herman Melville

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

Herman Melville

In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary?

Herman Melville

And the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

Herman Melville

If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

Herb Alpert

The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips.

Herb Caen

When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't.

Henry David Thoreau

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!

Henry David Thoreau

Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.

Henry David Thoreau

Oh, one world at a time!

Henry David Thoreau

A little thought is sexton to all the world.

Henry David Thoreau

In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.

Henry David Thoreau

There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

Jeremy Grantham

The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.