World Quotes

I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.

~ Imtiaz Ali

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

~ Pearl S. Buck

I grew up in Florida, so you start swimming at the age of 1, really. By 10, I was competitive swimming, and by 12, I had aspirations to be the best in the world.

~ Diana Nyad

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

~ John Boyd Orr

I personally think that we can win the World Cup. We are improving with every game. With such a young average age in the squad we can only carry on improving.

~ Ruud Van Nistelrooy

Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.

~ Michael D. Higgins

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

~ Miriam Makeba

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

~ David Tang

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

~ Paddy Chayefsky

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

~ Bertrand Russell

If I can bring happiness to people all around the world, then I will try my best to do so.

~ Tom Holland

There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.

~ Thomas S. Monson

I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.

~ Queen Latifah

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

~ Ellen Degeneres

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.

~ Iggy Azalea

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

~ Bertrand Russell

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

~ Paul Thomas Anderson

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?

~ Frédéric Chopin

As a man, if you're married, your happiness is with her happiness. If she's unhappy, everything's messed up. It's a woman's world for sure.

~ Bj The Chicago Kid

You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.

~ Andrew Solomon

There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body.

~ Douglas Fairbanks

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

~ Thomas Huxley

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

~ Henry Van Dyke

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

~ David Sarnoff

Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

~ Narendra Modi

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

~ David Brainerd

In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped through life, unaware of all the atrocities lurking in the world around them.

~ Lynne Truss

Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of bad things happening in the world, but it's important to try to stay happy and appreciate what you've got, and don't look externally for the happiness.

~ Ana Ivanovic

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

~ Paulo Coelho

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

~ Horace

I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

~ Chris Evans

Working hard is a great way to impact the world, to learn, to grow, to feel accomplished, and sometimes even to find happiness, but it becomes a problem when you do so at the expense of the people closest to you.

~ Travis Bradberry

The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Modern people don't want to be dropped naked into a swamp. We want to tour Yosemite with our water bottles and G.P.S. devices. The natural world is a source of happiness and fulfillment, but only when prescribed in the right doses.

~ Paul Bloom

This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can't manufacture the happiness of our people.

~ Ai Weiwei

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

~ Julie Christie

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

~ Leni Riefenstahl

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

~ Percy Ross

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

~ Larry Page