World Quotes

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

~ Samuel Johnson

A visionary is someone who can see the future, or thinks he sees the future. In my case, I use it and it comes out right. That doesn't come from daydreams or dreams, but it comes from knowing the market and knowing the world and knowing people really well and knowing where they're going to be tomorrow.

~ Leonard Lauder

Thankfully, dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.

~ Stephen Colbert

We are in a world where globalization, which is an ideology, has forgotten and put aside the people, the people's interests, aspirations, and dreams.

~ Marine Le Pen

But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

~ Christopher Nolan

I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

~ Christopher Nolan

In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.

~ Tariq Ali

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.

~ Gérard De Nerval

We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

~ Irvin D. Yalom

When you're a Republican Latino, you're traveling uphill on a lonely road. Still, it's the road I prefer. It has led me to opportunity far beyond my dreams. I've worked on eight Republican presidential races, as well as for some of the world's largest corporations, all because the doors of opportunity, not the doors of welfare, were open to me.

~ Lionel Sosa

'Modelland' has always been a part of my mind and my heart. I'm excited that you'll be able to read about this magical world that's been living in my dreams for so many years.

~ Tyra Banks

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

~ Samuel Butler

My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.

~ Ziggy Marley

If you believe, like I do, that the world is abundant with possibilities, then we need to make sure we build capacity so that everybody is successful or can be successful in the pursuit of their dreams - not the dreams of someone from government, but their own dreams.

~ Jeb Bush

You sail into the harbor, and Staten Island is on your left, and then you see the Statue of Liberty. This is what everyone in the world has dreams of when they think about New York. And I thought, 'My God, I'm in Heaven. I'll be dancing down Fifth Avenue like Fred Astaire with Ginger Rogers.'

~ Frank Mccourt

To be able to help a 13-year-old kid from the Bronx follow her dreams just by letting her know she's not forgotten in this crazy world - that's why I got involved with Frum Tha Ground Up.

~ Alicia Keys

The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.

~ Rafael Dos Anjos

A lot of the entrepreneurs and founders have big dreams and are on a mission to build things that the world has never seen before.

~ Aileen Lee

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

~ Erich Fromm

It's crazy how the world evolves and the audience gives you an opportunity to really grow and live out your dreams.

~ Luis Fonsi

The more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real. The more vividly you consider how you want your world to be, the more real and effective tools you will have for making it so.

~ Ralph Marston

It's hard because people always say, 'Follow your dreams,' but it's not a perfect world, and things don't always work out. But you've just got to work hard, and you can't take things for granted.

~ Stephen Colletti

Dreams look real, but they're in your mind, so you realize that the physical world is also a construction, which shows that the mind can affect reality in more ways than you can imagine.

~ Stephen Laberge

We spend most of our lives cutting down our ambitions because the world has told us to think small. Dreams express what your soul is telling you, so as crazy as your dream might seem - even to you - I don't care: You have to let that out.

~ Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

Being as it was one of my dreams to sing with one of the world's greatest groups, for me to join 'The Temptations' was a great blessing.

~ Ali-Ollie Woodson

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

~ John Wooden

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

~ Jim Demint

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

~ Bob Newhart

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

~ Arlo Guthrie

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

~ Richard Russo

Ad agencies do all kinds of market research that ask people what they think they want, and instead, you should be creating things that you want. If you do something and you get it, the rest of the world will get it, too. Trust your own instincts, your own intellect, and your own sense of humor.

~ George Lois

It's a funny old world.

~ Margaret Thatcher

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.

~ Michael J. Fox

All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

~ Lenny Bruce

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.

~ William Glasser

My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.

~ Warwick Davis

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

~ J. G. Ballard

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

~ Andre Rieu