Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy.

I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.

Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear.

And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.

People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho.

If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.

Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone.

Sometimes you just can't be afraid to wear a different hat. If Columbus had complied, this whole world might still be flat.

The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go.

Character is like my fingerprint; it identifies me from everyone else in the world. It says who I am and where I am headed.

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.

China is a keen observer of trends elsewhere in the world, and it's going to give our own innovators a run for their money.

I kind of live in this weird world where I am exposed to a lot of stuff, but then again I am not exposed to a lot of stuff.

Your life has been intentionally designed by God to have a uniquely significant and eternal impact on the world around you.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.

Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.

A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

Kings need the world, but the world does not need the kings! Let them disappear like the horrible ghosts of the nightmares!

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?

Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?

The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

Friends create the world anew each day. Without their loving care, courage would not suffice to keep heartsstrong for life.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

I feel like we as human beings are trampling all over the natural world, but at the same time, we are totally in its power.

We need American foreign policy that tells the world very clearly that it is bad to be our enemy and good to be our friend.

I felt like I didn't have [any] pizzazz, and a lot of girls say I'm out of this world, so I was like I guess I'm from Mars.

Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.

Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents.

We just feel like we don't have the means, To rise above and beat it. So we keep waiting, Waiting on the world to change...

I'd be the last person in the world to deny that there are many people for whom faith is - can be a great sustaining force.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.

The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life

People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.

We are these people, wistful, ironical, wilful, who have no part in new-world reconstruction, in the confederacy of labour.

The tremendous efficiency and economy of the book has once again demonstrated itself. It's the world's most patient medium.

I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.

I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.

Without women to nurture in this world, how do - how do men get by? How do children get by? How does society get by at all?

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