Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lolo Jones

I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

Lois Lowry

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after,

Lloyd Alexander

You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.

Lloyd Alexander

I loved all the world's mythologies.

Manu Bennett

The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

Mao Zedong

We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.

Madeleine M. Kunin

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

Lucy Larcom

A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole world, seen and unseen, go to the making up of every human being?

Lucy Larcom

The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses...

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it?

Lucy Maud Montgomery

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

We must create our own world.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.

Louisa May Alcott

I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.

John Green

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

John Goodman

Read, read, read, read, read. Read everything. You can’t work unless you know the world, and outside of living in the world the best way to learn about the world is to read about it.

John Fowles

There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.

John Fowles

The world began in hazard and will end in it.

John F. Kennedy

Foreign aid is a method by which the United States maintains a position of influence and control around the world

John F. Kennedy

In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration.

Lisa Kleypas

He never knew what hit him, and that would have comforted me, except . . . just for one second, he would have had to know, wouldn't he? There must have been a blur, a sense of the world exploding, a flashpoint of receiving more damage than a human body could endure.

Linus Pauling

I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.

Linus Pauling

Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.

Linus Torvalds

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.

Linda Hunt

The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn’t fit, you make alterations.

Lincoln Steffens

It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.

Lil Wayne

I just feel out of this world sometimes.

Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.

Leo Tolstoy

I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth.