Famous Quotes & Sayings

Camille Paglia

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

C. L. R. James

All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

Bryan Clay

Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Out here where the world begins and ends, it’s like nothing ever stops happening.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.

Casey Neistat

We could fly anywhere in the world given that we had to fly coach but we could fly anywhere in the world or do whatever we wanted to do.

Casey Stengel

Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the lineup.

Carl Hiaasen

Disney world is an armpit,compared to Montana!!

Carl Jung

The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

Carl Jung

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

Carl Jung

The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.

Carl Jung

The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.

David Hume

When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar objects, I say, are so inexplicable, and contain circumstances so repugnant and contradictory; with what assurance can we decide concerning the origin of worlds, or trace their history from eternity to eternity?

David Hume

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or person wholly unknown to me. It is as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledged lesser good to my greater, and have a more ardent affection for the former than the latter.

David Dreman

History constantly reminds us that in an uncertain world there is no visibility of prospects. Future earnings cannot be predicted with accuracy.

David Draiman

Spread the sickness, infect the world.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships and relationships in that world, it's born out of necessity. It makes him better. There's a pragmatism to it. It's not whimsical or sentimental. It's born out of necessity.

Benedict Cumberbatch

There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I was brought up in a world of privilege.

Benedict Cumberbatch

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.

Benedict Cumberbatch

You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

Beatrice Wood

You can't change the world, you can only change yourself.

Bear Grylls

I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .

Barnett Newman

We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.

Barry Diller

I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

Baroness Orczy

We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops

Audrey Meadows

Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance.

August Strindberg

I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

August Wilson

You are responsible for the world that you live in.

We should be focused on making the world a better place, and once we do that, the money will come back and find us.

Arthur Peacocke

Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.

Armstrong Williams

We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.