In the long history of the world only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

The eye of a human being is a microscope which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick, which has not broken its way through its shell, might form of the outside world.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

As human beings our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork and the other is nostalgia.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

The more I know of the world the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

The world's crazy when it comes to beauty.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

In times of change learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen, with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

A man's feet should be planted in his country but his eyes should survey the world.

As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I born in the world, raised in the world, having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy, and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.

I arise in the morning, torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

The World is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for, and I hate very much to leave it.

If there was less sympathy in the world there would be less trouble in the world.

A man who was completely innocent offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Earth was not built for six billion people, all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

All History is current, all injustice continues on some level somewhere in the world.

A wise man recognizing that the world is but an illusion does not act as if it is real so he escapes the suffering.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

When we constantly ask for miracles we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given, than to explore the power they have to change it. 

The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrifice

You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people. Everything depends on how we love one another.

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.

There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

I do not dispute with the world; rather it is the world that disputes with me.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.

The dupe of friendship and the fool of love, have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do, and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

God is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us with or without repentance.

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt, helpless naked piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.

Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.

The world is too much with us, late and soon getting and spending we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

One atom of the plane where He functions would shatter the world.

In seperateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength.

It is within this fathoms-long carcass with its mind and its notions that I declare there is the worl,d the origin of the world, the cessation of the world, and the path leading to the cessation of the world.

O God, O God how weary stale flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

On this narrow planet we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.

That is sad, until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation, and kids all around the world who admired me.

I hold the world but as the world Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

There was a time when the world acted on books, now books act on the world.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

All in all I would not have missed this century for the world.

I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country in a world based on fear.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy and so I can communicate with the whole world.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Society exists only as a mental concept, in the real world there are only individuals.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

It is not once nor twice, but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Those whose minds are well fixed upon the elements of enlightenment, who without hankering after anything glory in renunciation, whose biases are extinguished, who are full of light -  they indeed have attained the bliss of nirvana in this very world.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction, like that of religion, which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.