Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.

Terry Gilliam

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

Terry Gilliam

It's the shock of the world if you allow yourself to disconnect from the world and forget it's out there, how noisy it is, how busy it is, how invasive it is.

Terry Goodkind

Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is his who can see through its pretension.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is all outside, it has no inside.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

Scott Ian

I kind of live in this weird world where I am exposed to a lot of stuff, but then again I am not exposed to a lot of stuff.

Shoshana Zuboff

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

Shinichi Suzuki

Perhaps it is music that will save the world.

Sharad Pawar

If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not be allowed to do so?

Lawrence Eagleburger

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

Lawrence Eagleburger

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

Lawrence Eagleburger

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

Lady Bird Johnson

Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.

Marcus Garvey

The value of knowledge is to use it. It is not humanly possible that a person can retain all knowledge of the world, but if a person knows how to search for all the knowledge of the world, he will find it when he wants it.

Peter Kreeft

The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say."

Peter Kreeft

Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word.

Peter Kreeft

Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.

Peter Kreeft

The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.

Peter Eisenman

The world is too full of information.

Peter Gabriel

Yeah, in the digital world, it is so much easier to put stuff out without a great deal of paraphernalia and fanfare.

Pema Chodron

Opening to the world begins to benefit ourselves and others simultaneously. The more we relate with others, the more quickly we discover where we're blocked.

Peter Sarsgaard

Words are words, but the way an actor says them, the way it's framed, puts you either in the world that looks a lot like ours or one that doesn't seem a lot like ours, one that can be farcical or one that can't.

Peter Senge

Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.

Peter Piot

The era of implementation has started. The world is now committed to universal treatment.

Peter Porter

In the New World, happiness is enforced.

Peter Jackson

In an ideal world the script is written lean and tight and therefore there are no scenes left on the cuttring room floor and therefore no extended edition.

Pierre Trudeau

Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being.