Quotations on World
The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better-it is just turning around as usual.
-Finley Peter Dunne
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
-Bertrand Russell
The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: An instruction book didn't come with it.
-R. Buckminster Fuller
The world is your playground. Why aren't you playing?
-Ellie Katz
The world is its own magic.
-Shunryu Suzuki
The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-Aldous Huxley
I think the world is run by C students.
-Al McGuire
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
-Horace Walpole
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. It it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
-E.B. White

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