Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ashcroft

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

Joe Sacco

I meditate not to escape the world but instead to be completely present.

Joe Strummer

The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.

Jodi Picoult

It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's.

Jodi Picoult

The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.

John Gresham Machen

Christianity is not engrossed by this transitory world, but measures all things by the thought of eternity.

Ken Thompson

So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.

Kenneth Lay

Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets.

Kenneth Oppel

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

Kingsley Amis

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

Oren Peli

Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.

Oprah Winfrey

A world of possibilities awaits you. Keep turning the page.

Oprah Winfrey

What's wrong with the world and what can we do to change it?

Oprah Winfrey

All life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment. We are all little beaming little signals like radio frequencies, and the world is responding in kind.

Oprah Winfrey

Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world.

Oprah Winfrey

When you learn to say thank you, you see the world anew.

Oprah Winfrey

There is no doing in the world without being first.

Olivier Martinez

I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.

Oliver Goldsmith

It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.

Margaret Atwood

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

Margaret Atwood

We've learned to see the world in gasps.

Margaret Atwood

There is so much going on all over the world that it's impossible for one person to keep up. And I can't.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

Kinky Friedman

God created whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world.

Katie Holmes

I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.

Margaret Thatcher

The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.

Women of God can never be like women of the world.

Margaret Cho

That's the nature of comedy - you always want to be improving and growing and changing with what's happening in the world. That's when comedy is most effective.

Margaret Cho

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

Lauren Oliver

Everytime he brushes me with his fingers, time seems to tether for a second, like it is in danger of dissolving. The whole world is dissolving, I decide, except for us. Us.

Lauren Oliver

One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved-out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart.