- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world).
- Drunk
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- Nov 07, 2020
Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's impossible to play football in a world among men and not fight for equality.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Beatles are great for everybody - they write the songs that made the whole world sing.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a lot of diehard fans. Ace Frehley fans and Kiss fans are the greatest fans in the world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is true that a large percentage of the Western world hopes that I am imprisoned or dead. But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.
- Defiance
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- Nov 07, 2020