Famous Quotes & Sayings

Veronica Roth

But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.

Veronica Roth

No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.

Veronica Roth

Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human

Richard Bach

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

Richard Bach

It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.

Richard Bach

Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?

Robert Frost

It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.

Rita Dove

What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?

Richard Dormer

I was fascinated by the world. I thought, "I just want to be a part of this world."

Rene Descartes

So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.

Rene Descartes

God alone is the author of all the motions in the world.

Rene Descartes

We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.

Rene Descartes

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

Thornton Wilder

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Thomas P. Campbell

The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture.

Thomas Nagel

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.

Thomas Huxley

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

Thomas Huxley

Next to being right in this world, the best of all things is to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will come out somewhere. If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently wrong, you must, some of these days, have the extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a fact, and that sets you all straight again.

Thomas F. Wilson

To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.

Thomas Browne

The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.

Timothy Geithner

Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through

Thomas S. Monson

No force in this world can stop the work of God.

Thomas Pynchon

Shall I project a world?

Robert Musil

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

Robert Mondavi

As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much.

Robert Kirkman

In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living.

Robert Kennedy

Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.

Vinod Khosla

The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.

Vinod Khosla

If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.

Vinod Khosla

It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.

Vinton Cerf

We live in a very complex world.

Walt Whitman

I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.

Saul Alinsky

The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.