World Quotes

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

~ William Blake

In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.

~ Andrew Weil

When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It's trial and error, really. If something doesn't work, it comes out, and you start all over again.

~ Emilia Fox

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

~ Jawaharlal Nehru

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life - that is, to be happy.

~ Robert Baden-Powell

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.

~ Buddha

Coral reefs represent some of the world's most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the sea's most exquisite species will not survive.

~ Sheherazade Goldsmith

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

~ Conor Oberst

The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.

~ Helena Christensen

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

~ Anthony Kiedis

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

~ Michael Franti

When we hear the word 'beauty', we inevitably think that beauty belongs in a special elite realm where only the extraordinary dwells. Yet without realizing it, each day each one of us is visited by beauty. When you actually listen to people, it is surprising how often beauty is mentioned. A world without beauty would be unbearable.

~ John O'donohue

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

~ G. H. Hardy

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

~ Imelda Marcos

Beauty does not linger; it only visits. Yet beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm; it calls us to feel, think and act beautifully in the world: to create and live a life that awakens the Beautiful. A life without delight is only half a life.

~ John O'donohue

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

~ Virginia Woolf

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

~ Oscar Wilde

I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.

~ Gabriela Isler

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

~ H. P. Lovecraft

The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, corrupt and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is so seldom the sudden light that shows new order and beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark.

~ John Cornforth

We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world.

~ Marie Curie

Conservation is key to preserving many of the world's natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.

~ Sheherazade Goldsmith

While traveling around the world, I've had the opportunity to work with every living beauty icon. I've learned to appreciate idiosyncrasy. The fact is, there is really no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty.

~ Kevyn Aucoin

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

~ Toni Morrison

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

~ Charlie Haden

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.

~ Donna Rice

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

~ Jerry Saltz

I love the fact that we are surrounded by this spectacular natural beauty that routinely strikes us dead. Hikers walk off into the woods and are never seen again. And still we tug on our fleece and skip off into the wilderness, not a care in the world.

~ Chelsea Cain

Ipsy's goal has always been to create a community that inspires women around the world to express their own unique beauty.

~ Michelle Phan

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

~ John Burroughs

It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

~ Daniel Burnham

Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.

~ Tyra Banks

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

~ Anna Quindlen

I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!

~ Gail Simmons

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

~ Christo

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

~ James Dean

Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.

~ Joyce Giraud