World Quotes

I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.

~ Ayad Akhtar

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

~ Yoko Ono

The protests and pain over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown had me wondering if we can ever experience the world as others do. For no matter how disputed the circumstances of both cases, many people see what happened in black and white.

~ Campbell Brown

Skydiving is special because it's almost the closest to an out-of-body experience you can have. We live in such a stimulated, connected, busy world - to be up in the air with nothing but yourself and the landscape is incredibly peaceful.

~ Georgia King

I played for Santos at 16, and we had an excellent team, so it helped a lot. And then I played for Brazil at the Maracana against Argentina. So I get more experience. This was one year before the World Cup, and it made a lot of difference.

~ Pelé

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

~ Muhammad Iqbal

No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball thrown from pitcher to catcher seems to take just one path, the one described by Newton's laws of motion. Yet at a microscopic level, the universe behaves quite differently.

~ Lawrence M. Krauss

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

~ Paul Mellon

Job seekers light up when they find The Muse - we're a breath of fresh air in a stale, musty world. Our user experience focuses first and foremost on the individual, on providing them information - from content to company profiles - to make the most pressing professional decisions in their lives.

~ Kathryn Minshew

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

~ Giacomo Leopardi

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

~ Mos Def

Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.

~ Andrew J. Bernstein

As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.

~ Jeffrey Kluger

Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world.

~ Marion Ross

On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without experience or cunning, to succeed gradually in gaining control over what is to be taped, what goes out over the air, what is said without censorship, is an epic feat.

~ Cristina Saralegui

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

~ Deepak Chopra

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

~ Ziggy Marley

One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.

~ Clive Barker

It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.

~ Prince William

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

~ Max Frisch

Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

~ Lauren Oliver

Only a couple of companies in the world have the experience of building these machines, although the market need, if RFID did take off, would be for about 1 million of the machines running in parallel.

~ Mike Marsh

It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.

~ Sebastian Thrun

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

~ Sharon Salzberg

There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.

~ Dmitri Mendeleev

We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

~ Idina Menzel

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.

~ John Hersey

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

~ Jonah Goldberg

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

~ René Magritte

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

~ Morihei Ueshiba

I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.

~ Tan Le

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

~ Bell Hooks

I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

~ Michelle Obama

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.

~ Lillian Russell

Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.

~ Denis O'hare

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

~ Oliver Stone

American economists can't understand the German fear of inflation and the effects of inflation when dealing with the world economic crisis. They wonder why Germany pursues such a different course - 'Why can't they agree with us?' I would have thought it was fairly obvious.

~ Simon Rattle

Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the question: 'After Nehru, who?' The inexpressible fear lay in the subtext to the question: 'After Nehru, what?'

~ Shashi Tharoor

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

~ Grace Paley

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

~ D. H. Lawrence