It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all. - Jodi Picoult On a really dark night, you can see between 1,000 and 1,500 stars, and there are millions more that haven't been discovered. It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all. -Brian Fitzgerald - Jodi Picoult When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves. - Jamie Luner

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift. - Maya Angelou

Maybe everybody in the whole damn world's scared of each other. - John Steinbeck Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other. - John Steinbeck Ain't many guys travel around together," he mused. "I don't know why. Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other. - John Steinbeck And to top everything he's got this problem he can't let her know how he feels: What-he's shy? Shy! Tell me who in this goddamn world is shy? Young, old, the lame and halt. Clobber you over the head with what they feel. Oh Man I wish just once in my long fucked-up life someone had come up to me who was too shy to tell me what they thought of me.. - E L Doctorow How am I coping? I miss George and the goddamn world is still full of zombies, that's how. Everything else... Everything else is just details. And those don't really matter to me anymore. - Mira Grant What will they say, Ce, when we dance together? I want to do tha...

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system. - Gavyn Davies Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal. - Dorothy Denning You are an analog girl, living in a digital world. - Neil Gaiman In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today. - Daniel Greenberg In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together. - Edwin Moses This digital world is completely fascinating to me. - Graham Nash My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise. - Colin Powell ...

Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever. - Anthony Burgess I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world. - Danny Devito Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend. - Tony Dorsett It's a cruel world, and unless you're blessed with some talent people will pay money to see, your friends are the only people who will get you where you need to go. - Scott Douglas ...introduced Doc to the miracle of morphine. From that very first shot it was as if he'd discovered the one vital ingredient that God had left out when He'd sent Doc kicking and screaming in...

I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all. - Nigel Dennis Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world. - Tony Gilroy Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world. - Rosabeth Moss Kanter I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before. - Frank Luntz Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much. - Indra Nooyi For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every day, a woman can choose from an army of personae, femme to butch, and can cut or curl her hair or adorn herself with a staggering variety of artistic aids. But despite the...

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century. - Alejo Carpentier And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world. - Jerry Falwell Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. - Heinrich Heine Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era. They have been able to sing, to laugh, and to pray out loud; they have danced and shared what Saint Paul called 'the madness of saintliness'. They have been joyful - because those who love conquer the world and have no fear of loss. True love is an act of total surrender. - Paulo Coelho If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world - Paulo Coelho and he felt that, just as he had conquered this place, he could conquer the world. - Paulo Coelho And I'm going to hold on to what little I have, because I'm too insignificant to conquer the world. - Paulo Coelho She Knows three things: (a) that men are less treacherous than women; (b) that they never notice what a woman is wearing because the...

If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama. - William J Clinton I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life. - Anthony Perkins I also think we live in a competitive world, and I love competition. - Arsene Wenger

A lot of times I watch TV and I watch film and there's so many things I'd love to talk about that I feel don't get the opportunity to be shown. Sometimes things become very stereotypical and one-sided, and I feel like it's such a colorful world. - Alicia Keys If everyone would look for that uniqueness then we would have a very colorful world. - Michael Schenker

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. - Francis Bacon I am a citizen of the world. - Diogenes Of Sinope God save you, my brethren, with all your -isms and schisms! I am a citizen of the world, and a man of Weimer. I have established myself by culture in this choice society; and if anyone knows a better place, let him go to it. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. - Albert Einstein Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world. - Thomas Cochrane I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world. - Socrates I...

If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand. - Ronald Reagan Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world. - John Ashcroft Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed. - Jean M Auel A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world. - Ibrahim Babangida In this ever-changing world, it's more important than ever that our top-notch military continues to receive the resources needed to serve and protect our country. - Max Baucus --There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of gr...

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world. - Paulo Coelho Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it. - Friedrich Durrenmatt Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision. - Gilbert K Chesterton Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear. - Orson Scott Card Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was. - Douglas Coupland By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We...

You know, there's a big world out there filled with desperate orphans who would gladly swim across an ocean of thumbtacks just to be eclipsed by the long shadow that is cast by my accomplishments. - Lemony Snicket Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It is like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. Things will go where they are supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course. Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it is time for them to be hurt. Life is like that. - Haruki Murakami It is a big world that we live in, and people have a choice to love who they love. - Cedric The Entertainer His kid brother had been smart enough to make something of himself in the big world; Ollie himself might have been smart enough to stay ahead of the bank loans and the credit cards, but not much more. - Stephen King You know, my view is that we have a big...

Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life. - Lemony Snicket To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence. - Martin Buber Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination. - Stephen King Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us back into our own cold solitude. Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry. That's why I tell you yet again, and you want to keep in mind: Boccaccio doesn't understand love. Love can never be laughable. Love has nothing in common with laughter. - Milan Kundera ...

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. - Mark Twain We owe it to the fans to do a tour around the world. - Steven Adler It is not surprising that Ibn Sina is a national icon in Iran today, and one can find countless schools and hospitals named after him in many countries around the world. Indeed, his legacy stretches even further, for there is an 'Avicenna' crater on the moon, and in 1980 every member country of Unesco celebrated the thousand-year anniversary of Ibn Sina's birth. As a philosopher he is referred to as the Aristotle of Islam; as a physician he is known as the Galen of Islam. - Jim Al Khalili You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way around the world. You've got people telling their secrets on TV talk shows, and magazines that publish pictures of movi...

I looked at him through swollen eyes. The light glowed around him and he looked like he was floating. He was a glowing creature from another world, opening his gossamer wings and beckoning me. I wanted to tumble into his embrace. We'd be able to fly and I wouldn't mind the sunshine or the sky if he could just hold me forever. - Heather Anastasiu A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy. And that love could fill the real world with magic. - Lisa Kleypas When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world. - Darren Aronofsky 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. - John Ashcroft A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imagina...