Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence

Bertrand Russell

Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism.

Bertrand Russell

A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.

Bertrand Russell

A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world.

H. P. Lovecraft

So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.

H. P. Lovecraft

All great humorists are sad.... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest--the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

H. P. Lovecraft

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

H. G. Wells

If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.

H. G. Wells

I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State…

H. G. Wells

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.

Jean Baudrillard

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Jean Baudrillard

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.

Jean Baudrillard

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

Jay Paterno

Joe Paterno left this world with a clear conscience,

Jay Carney

What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power. That is a very risky proposition.

Jasper Johns

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

Carly Fiorina

Human potential is the only limitless resource we have in this world.

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

Buchi Emecheta

I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.

Bruno Mars

And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while

James Hetfield

Metallica is the world to me - it always has been, and that's not going to change. I'm married to Metallica.

James Hillman

Each person enters the world called.

James Dickey

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

James Ellroy

I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world.

James E. Faust

The Holy Ghost is the greatest guarantor of inward peace in our unstable world.

Jarvis Cocker

One of the problems of our modern world is that there's a lot of things to work through, but, at some point, everybody should take a pause from that and make something, so that it's not just all one-way traffic.

Janeane Garofalo

I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.

Janeane Garofalo

The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off.

Jane Levy

Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories.

Jane Roberts

If the world was taking care of women, women would take care of the world.

Errol Flynn

I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.

Errol Morris

All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.