"We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the theater."
Read quote
3 likes
World quotes
World
26.2K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to World
Browse quotes that often appear alongside world — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
World quotes (page 298 of 1309)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions of fixity absurd. Incongruously enough, however, when we allow ourselves to fully accept uncertainty, to embrace and cultivate it even, then we actually can begin to feel within ourselves the presence of an Absolute. The person who cannot welcome ambiguity cannot welcome God."
Read quote
3 likes
"There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon."
Read quote
3 likes
"Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes time to stand still, lust kills time, which is not to say that it wastes it or whiles it aimlessly away but rather that it annihilates it, cancels it, extirpates it from continuum; preventing, while lasts, any lapse into the tense and shabby woes of temporal society, lust is the thousand-pound odometer needle on the dashboard of the absolute."
Read quote
3 likes
"Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some barking at the moon."
Read quote
3 likes
"You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it."
Read quote
3 likes
"What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was."
Read quote
3 likes
"The truth, from my perspective, is that the world, indeed, is ending - and is also being reborn. It's been doing that all day, every day, forever."
Read quote
3 likes
"By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world.' So I started working for newspapers."
Read quote
3 likes
"At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience."
Read quote
3 likes
"You have to move from just working for money to a world where money works for you."
Read quote
3 likes
"The world we live in is the world we choose to live in, whether consciously or unconsciously. If we choose bliss, that's what we get. If we choose misery, we get that, too."
Read quote
3 likes
"Where the world is going and what technology is leading us to in terms of the evolution of humanity is an incredibly valuable thing to understand."
Read quote
3 likes
"I can tell you what women need in general. They need respect and love. They need to be able to trust your word and to be able to confide in you. So often, we can't care for ourselves in this world, so we need protection and provision."
Read quote
3 likes
"Stand-up and comedy is the place where we are supposed to be able to make fun of all of the world's ills."
Read quote
3 likes
"If we all had a little bit of Michael Jackson in us, I think it would make the world a better place."
Read quote
3 likes
"[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me."
Read quote
3 likes
"Before we find world peace, we gotta find peace in the war on the streets."
Read quote
3 likes
"I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody."
Read quote
3 likes
"Can you imagine what it's like for you to be who I am, who I was, and for them to say that I raped a woman? And for the whole world to actually be entertaining the thought that you raped a woman. That's hell."
Read quote
3 likes