Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dee Dee Myers

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

Dean Kamen

We live in a world where virtually everybody expects there's going to be some reasonable therapy for virtually any situation.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.

Edgar Allan Poe

The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.

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.

Edward Abbey

Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.

Edward Abbey

The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.

Edward Abbey

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

Edward Abbey

If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.

Edward Abbey

The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.

Edward Abbey

In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe.

Edward Abbey

It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.

Aubrey Plaza

I can't say I follow politics extremely closely, but I'm definitely aware of what's going on in the world.

Aubrey Plaza

If you feel like a weirdo, it's okay because weirdos rule the world.

Ben Jonson

My thoughts and I were of another world.

Alexandre Dumas

Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.

Alexandra Adornetto

To make one person the center of your world is bound to end in disaster. There are too many factors outside your control.

Albert Schweitzer

At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.

The more we can be raised above the petty vexations and pleasures of this world into the eternal life to come, the more shall we be prepared to enter into that eternal life whenever God shall please to call us hence.

Banksy

I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

Jean de la Bruyere

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Alan Cohen

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

Alan Cohen

Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly.

Alan Cohen

To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.

Aleister Crowley

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

Alberto Juantorena

Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule.

Albert Einstein

The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent.

Albert Einstein

In a sailboat I become oblivious to everything else in the world.