Quotes about "world"

>> add "world" to notebook
>> get quotes about "world" on image

Sell also: cosmos, creation, domain, earth, existence, globe, humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind, populace, public, reality, universe, wide

Definitions and meanings of word "world"

• Noun: everything that exists anywhere; examples: "they study the evolution of the universe", "the biggest tree in existence"

• Noun: all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you; examples: "his world was shattered", "we live in different worlds", "for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were"

• Noun: people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest; example: "the Western world"

• Noun: the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on; examples: "the Earth moves around the sun", "he sailed around the world"

• Noun: the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife; example: "they consider the church to be independent of the world"

• Noun: a part of the earth that can be considered separately; examples: "the outdoor world", "the world of insects"

• Noun: people in general considered as a whole; example: "he is a hero in the eyes of the public"

• Noun: all of the living human inhabitants of the earth; examples: "all the world loves a lover", "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women"

• Adj: involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope; examples: "global war", "global monetary policy", "neither national nor continental but planetary", "a world crisis", "of worldwide significance"

Featured authors with quotes containing word "world"

Mitt Romney
20 quotes about world
American Politician, Businessman
Born Wednesday 12 March 1947
Oscar Wilde
17 quotes about world
Irish Writer, Poet, Dramatist, Playwright
Monday 16 October 1854 - Friday 30 November 1900
Franz Kafka
12 quotes about world
Austrian Writer, Novelist, Critic, Author
Tuesday 3 July 1883 - Tuesday 3 June 1924
Ralph Waldo Emerson
14 quotes about world
American Critic, Poet, Lecturer
Wednesday 25 May 1803 - Thursday 27 April 1882
Arthur Henderson
13 quotes about world
British Leader, Politician
Sunday 13 September 1863 - Sunday 20 October 1935
Mahatma Gandhi
15 quotes about world
Indian Leader
Saturday 2 October 1869 - Friday 30 January 1948
Barack Obama
12 quotes about world
American President
Born Friday 4 August 1961
John F. Kennedy
10 quotes about world
American President
Tuesday 29 May 1917 - Friday 22 November 1963
Helen Keller
13 quotes about world
American Author, Activist, Lecturer
Sunday 27 June 1880 - Saturday 1 June 1968
Josiah Royce
10 quotes about world
American Philosopher
Tuesday 20 November 1855 - Thursday 14 September 1916
Henry Miller
11 quotes about world
American Writer, Critic, Author
Saturday 26 December 1891 - Saturday 7 June 1980
George Bernard Shaw
13 quotes about world
Irish Dramatist
Saturday 26 July 1856 - Thursday 2 November 1950

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

>> add quote to my notebook
>> create quote image

We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

>> add quote to my notebook
>> create quote image

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

>> add quote to my notebook
>> create quote image

It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

>> add quote to my notebook
>> create quote image

Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

>> add quote to my notebook
>> create quote image

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

>> add quote to my notebook
>> create quote image

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

>> add quote to my notebook
>> create quote image

The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

>> add quote to my notebook
>> create quote image

Now it is just this world we like the best, the Germanic world, the world of Nordic life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

>> add quote to my notebook
>> create quote image

I wouldn't say Malkovich is totally insane, but he's not living in the real world. He's living in his world, which is a fine world to live in apparently.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

>> add quote to my notebook
>> create quote image

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

>> add quote to my notebook
>> create quote image

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

>> add quote to my notebook
>> create quote image

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

>> add quote to my notebook
>> create quote image

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

>> add quote to my notebook
>> create quote image

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

>> add quote to my notebook
>> create quote image

When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

>> add quote to my notebook
>> create quote image

You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

>> add quote to my notebook
>> create quote image

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

>> add quote to my notebook
>> create quote image

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

>> add quote to my notebook
>> create quote image

World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

>> add quote to my notebook
>> create quote image
Elements: 7697, Pages: 385 Page number: + enter or Jump to page: