World Quotes

In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

~ Vanessa Mae

The world is my workshop. It is not my home.

~ Abbas Kiarostami

We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit.

~ Jennifer Connelly

At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.

~ Willard Wigan

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

~ John Cheever

Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice?

~ Ismail Haniyeh

I do become a recluse once in a while. It's so nice to just be at home and to not have to deal with the outside world.

~ Kourtney Kardashian

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

~ Barack Obama

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

~ Muhammad Ali

The truth is, if anyone saw my home life, I'm pretty sure it would look like other families' around the world. There's a lot of juggling to be done.

~ Brooke Burke

I live in a sort of insular world. It's mostly my family, my house, staying home and working.

~ Mark Hamill

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

~ Terry Mcmillan

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

~ E. W. Howe

Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

~ Nina Simone

I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff.

~ Bjorn Lomborg

The thing about being at home versus being out in the world working is, it's a whole different vibe. When I'm home with my kids and partner, I will cook - even though she's a very good cook. She's learned over the years. We started with basics, you know, how to saute onions, how to saute mushrooms.

~ Cat Cora

If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.

~ Roddy Doyle

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

~ Anne Brontë

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

~ Henrik Ibsen

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

~ Octavio Paz

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

~ Tim Burton

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

~ Elie Wiesel

There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can.

~ Alonzo Mourning

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

~ Jules Renard

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

~ Emily Carr

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

~ Sandra Day O'connor

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

~ James Madison

Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

~ K. D. Lang

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

~ Alfred Korzybski

A young girl reached out to me to be her mentor one day, which I didn't really know anything about. What I did remember was what it was to be alone as an African-American dancer in the ballet world and wanting to connect with someone who looks like me.

~ Misty Copeland

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.

~ Freya Stark

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

~ Alexandre Dumas

The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of good in the world. I can lead by example and just be this heroic recovery guy.' And that's just a bad reason to get sober. You can't get sober for anybody's benefit, let alone the world at large. You really got to do it for yourself.

~ Steve-O

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

~ Franz Kafka

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

~ Eliot Engel

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

~ Edward Sapir

The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and all the world over. But the workers in Western Europe stand alone: this should never be forgotten in Russia.

~ Herman Gorter

But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.

~ Dennis Eckersley

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

~ Philip Schultz

One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tibet itself, here it is in California, in Switzerland, in Japan. All over the world, Tibetan Buddhism is now part of the neighborhood. In 1968, there were two Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West. By 2000, there were 40 in New York alone.

~ Pico Iyer