Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Chapman

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

Christopher Fry

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

Christopher Fry

Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.

Christopher Dawson

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

Christina Aguilera

It's amazing how a truly great songwriter can touch anyone in the world with their words.

Christian Lacroix

I never loved the world around me as it was.

Christian Dior

The rich live the same all over the world.

Chris Rock

Tomorrow is more sure than just about anything else in the entire world.

Chris Rock

Money is the best lotion in the world.

Chris Marker

I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me,

Chris Mooney

Globally, you're seeing a big, big trend towards large installations of renewable energies across the world. You are going to see huge installations of wind and solar in places like Africa. These things are going to happen no matter what. They're going to happen for largely non-policy free market reasons even in the United States.

Germaine Greer

Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

Frances Wright

The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.

Fran Drescher

I went into the world, threw myself into the world, and great things came out of it.

George W. Bush

You cannot show weakness in this world.

George Santayana

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

George Santayana

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

George Santayana

The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.

George P. Shultz

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

George Osborne

You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

It’s not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God’s, created by God, that I do not accept and cannot agree to accept.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder. "Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply. "Such beauty has power," Adelaida said hotly. "You can overturn the world with such beauty.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The world will be saved by beauty.

Franz Beckenbauer

At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those participating - both inside and outside the stadiums.

Frantz Fanon

...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.

Franz Grillparzer

In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.