Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eugene Ionesco

To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.

Esther Dyson

No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.

Ernst Haeckel

Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.

Ernest Hemingway

And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.

Ernest Hemingway

The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.

Ernest Hemingway

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

Ernest Hemingway

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

Ezra Koenig

I like how Ralph Lauren creates a mystical world through his clothing.

Ethel Percy Andrus

We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.

Eudora Welty

Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.

Eudora Welty

A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.

Erwin W. Lutzer

God loves the world. Go thou and do likewise.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.

Erwin Schrodinger

Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world. … Nature does not act by purposes.

Erykah Badu

I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.

Erin O'Connor

I enjoy travelling the world, but nowhere beats Walsall.

Erin O'Connor

I am the world's laziest shopper, but very rarely have I had to take anything back.

Florence King

to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

Florence King

I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.

Florence Nightingale

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

Fidel Castro

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

Henry Louis Gates

The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity.

Henry Miller

Why change the world? Change worlds!

Henry Miller

To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.

Henning Mankell

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

Helen Keller

Always make the most of every sense; glory in all the pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.

Helen Keller

The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.

Cat Stevens

Oh I can't keep it in; I can't keep it in, I've gotta let it out I've got to show the world; world's got to see, See all the love; love that's in me

Cate Blanchett

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

Cassandra Clare

You are the central point about which his world spins.