World Quotes - page 5

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. (Oscar Wilde)
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. View quote
Oscar Wilde
A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants. View quote
Whitney Houston
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. View quote
Albert Camus
The world is not going to be saved by legislation. View quote
William Howard Taft
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility. View quote
Václav Havel
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others. View quote
Anthony Robbins
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. (John Steinbeck)
To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. View quote
William Blake
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it. View quote
Denis Diderot
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. View quote
James Russell Lowell
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. View quote
Clarence Darrow
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. View quote
Warren Buffett
We're going to have the best educated American people in the world. View quote
Dan Quayle
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud! View quote
Émile Zola
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. (Jean-Luc Godard)
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. View quote
Robertson Davies
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success. View quote
Max Born
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world. View quote
Max Born
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first. View quote
Jimi Hendrix