Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ashton Eaton

To do the best that I possibly could in my world makes me pretty happy.

Ben Shahn

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

Barbara de Angelis

There has never been, and never again will be a human being like you. There is nothing ordinary about you. If you feel ordinary, it is because you have chosen to hide the extraordinary parts of yourself from the world.

Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.

Ashley Montagu

An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .

Benjamin Graham

The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.

Benjamin Graham

The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.

The reason for the success of this somewhat communist-sounding strategy, while the failure of communism itself is visible around the world, is that the economics of information are fundamentaly different from those of other products.

Bruce Sterling

In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?

Bruce Springsteen

I guess there's just a meanness in this world

Brian Tracy

There is nobody like him in the world. There is - and always will be - one Jim Rohn.

Brendan Fraser

Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world

Brad Meltzer

In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.

Boz Scaggs

I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.

Jane Hirshfield

An ordinary hole beside a path through the woods might begin to open to altered worlds.

Jane Goodall

There is a lot of corruption all over the world and not only when it comes to illegal wildlife trade! There are a few ways to ensure this stops: If there are no customers, there will be no trade.

Jane Goodall

We have turned away from the natural world. Instead, it's all about money and power.

Jane Goodall

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

Jane Goodall

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.

Jane Fonda

When I'm in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.

Juvenal

When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.

Charles Fillmore

Let the God within you express itself through you in the world without.

Charles Bukowski

the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.

Charles Bukowski

I wanted the whole world or nothing.

Charles Bukowski

I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.

Benjamin Franklin

The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. [Fr., Mais dons ce monde, il n'y a rien d'assure que le mort et les impots.]

Benjamin Franklin

Pen, wax and parchment govern the world.

Benjamin Franklin

Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?

Benjamin Franklin

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.

Ben Affleck

It takes time to develop a sense of humor, shared world views.