Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Woolf

The world is crammed with delightful things

Virginia Woolf

The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?

Virginia Woolf

Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

Virginia Woolf

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

Virginia Woolf

... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.

Virginia Woolf

What a comfort is friendship in this world.

William Blake

Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release.

William Blake

Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.

Werner Heisenberg

The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however.

Werner Herzog

May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.

Walker Percy

In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.

Wallace Stegner

We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.

Wallace Stevens

Words of the world are the life of the world.

Wallace Stevens

To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.

Samuel J. Palmisano

Why IBM? We have tremendous expertise. One of the reasons we can drive phenomenal efficiency around the world is because we've made IBM an e-business.

Samuel Beckett

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

Salma Hayek

I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.

Salman Rushdie

Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.

Salman Rushdie

Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.

Salman Rushdie

Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

Salman Rushdie

I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

Salman Rushdie

Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.

Salman Rushdie

A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.

Ryan Tedder

I'm a huge Lady GaGa fan - she makes the world a more incredible place.

Ryan Reynolds

Religion poisons everything good in this world.

Rudolf Steiner

The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before we can discover it in our environment

Rudolf Steiner

Our task is to harvest from the mortal world fruits for the immortal.

Whatever lessons we take from this dreadful attack (on the World Trade Center and Pentagon), we should never forget that it was, after all, a faith based initiative.

Wangari Maathai

Today with technological advancement, with the Internet, with planes, with the rate at which we travel - even if you wanted, you cannot hide from the rest of the world. And whether you like it or not, you are part of this global marketplace, and so you might as well understand it, you might as well embrace it, because even if you hide, it will find you.

W. S. Gilbert

Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?

William Congreve

I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.

Wayne Coyne

You want to be influenced by the world because it has so many cool things about it, but it also has a bunch of bad things about it.

Wayne Coyne

You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.