Quotes
Quotes about World
That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
Misery travels free through the whole world! [Ger., Frei geht das Ungluck durch die ganze Erde!]
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud.
"O Charidas, what of the underworld?" "Great darkness." "And what of the resurrection?" "A lie." "And Pluto?" "A fable; we perish utterly."
The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
There is none, In all this cold and hollow world, no fount Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within A mother's heart.
They say man rules the universe, That subject shore and main Kneel down and bless the empery Of his majestic reign; But a sovereign, gentler, mightier, Man from his throne has hurled, For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.
They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty scepter O'er lesser powers that be; But a mightier power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled, For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.
We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.
And o'er the hills and far away, Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she followed him.
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their workaday lives but to gain an education, to see the world, to learn table manners and interior decoration, how to dress, kiss, to laugh and cry, how to react to tragedy and happiness, how to be brave, evil and good.
Everything will past, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.
A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.
