Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

David Lynch

Individual peace is the unit of world peace.

Ambrose Bierce

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Alice Paul

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.

Alice McDermott

The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.

Alice Munro

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Anne Michaels

Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.

Ann Voskamp

Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things

Ann Voskamp

In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.

A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who's going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.

Barack Obama

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.