World Quotes

I trembled to think of a world without stars. No guide for the sailor to trust at see, no jewels to dazzle our sense of beauty [...] But all around the globe, the air is so dirty and the lights from the cities are so bright that for some people few stars can be seen anymore. A generation of children may grow up seeing a blank sky and asking, "Did there used to be stars there?"

Nothing is more important than our children. They are the future. They can heal the world. It is our obligation to be there for them.

I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard.

There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

Certainly, no fact in the long history of the world is so startling as the wide and repeated exterminations of its inhabitants.

Who can explain why one species ranges widely and is very numerous, and why another allied species has a narrow range and is rare? Yet these relations are of the highest importance, for they determine the present welfare, and, as I believe, the future success and modification of every inhabitant of this world.

The natural history of this archipelago is very remarkable; it seems to be a little world within itself.

How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.

Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.

That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful and good God, or the product of uncaring natural forces? The presence of much suffering agrees well with the view that all organic beings have been developed through variation and natural selection.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.

A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.

Sisters make the best friends in the world.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.