Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Kirn

Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.

Walter Lippmann

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Voltaire

History is the study of the world's crime

Voltaire

You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

William Empson

This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it.

William Stafford

You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.

William Stafford

And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world.

William Stafford

When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world around you will be a sort of salvation.

William Stafford

The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying the things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing the things you do not have to hear dulls your hearing. And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world.

William Butler Yeats

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

William Butler Yeats

The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

William Butler Yeats

...I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made...

Walter Wriston

Information is a business in itself. It is also something that has made control impossible ... you cannot get customers to accept prices in one place when they know there's a better deal elsewhere. It's a whole new world.

Walter Savage Landor

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

Walter Gilbert

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

Vladimir Putin

The European Union's enlargement is part of the natural process of integration and globalisation that is underway in the world today.

Vladimir Putin

Europe and the United States are not the whole world.

Vladimir Putin

We are actively preparing a partial privatization of Rosneft itself. It is the best proof that our major plans have remained unchanged. Another example would be one of the largest Russian diamond mining companies in the world. We are privatizing part of our stake in that as well.

Vladimir Putin

A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.

Yitzhak Rabin

There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

Winona Ryder

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

Winston Churchill

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.

Winston Churchill

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world

Winston Churchill

From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

Winston Churchill

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Winston Churchill

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

William S. Burroughs

In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.

William S. Burroughs

We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.

William S. Burroughs

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

Virginia Woolf

After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.

Vinoba Bhave

In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.