World Quotes - Page 376

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

I sort of have the belief that you work being your character out while you're working on it, or that's been my experience so far. I throw myself into it 100% and try to live in that world, and then when it's over, just sort of be able to leave it behind.

Nuclear weapons elimination will make all states and their people safer. It is time to assert our right to live in a nuclear weapons free world.

It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.

You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you can not turn to other account than mere delight.

Me a TV star? I've got to be the luckiest guy in the world.

The World Cup is a truly international event.

If Serena Williams played the men's circuit she'd be like 700 in the world.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.

Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world.

Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.

I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.

In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases

Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

My soul is of more value than ten thousand worlds.

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.

I'm obviously aware that people are quite focused on the economy rather than foreign policy issues, but that is something that should and can be altered as people see the nature of the threats around the world that we face.

To make images is a way of ordering one's world, of exploring and understanding one's relationship to existence. ... The images we make are often ahead of our understanding, but to say "yes" to a subject is also to have recognized, however dimly, a part of oneself; to live with that image, to accept its significance is perhaps to grow in understanding.

To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one's fellow countrymen.... But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.

The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.

Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.