Quotes on World

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are there. these worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power; provide refuge, and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters.

It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That’s baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.’

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.