Quotes on World

If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat?

Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

World history is a court of judgment.

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

...Landsman doesn't buy that. Bina never stopped wanting to redeem the world. She just let the world she was trying to redeem get smaller and smaller until at one point, it could be bounded in the hat of a hopeless policeman.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.

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