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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.

I don't do a lot of research, exactly, but I'm constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them.

Quotes by Nick Harkaway

'Gone-Away World' was a shotgun blast, an explosion out of the box I'd put myself into writing film scripts. 'Tigerman' is shorter, tighter, more crafted.

Quotes by Nick Harkaway

Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.

Quotes by Nick Hornby

You play to win, to get that World Series ring, All-Star games and whatever comes with it.

Quotes by Nick Johnson

I feel like I'm one of the best players in the world tactically.

Quotes by Nick Kyrgios

I love to go out and have fun, but I'm not all about partying, so that's a perfect place for me to get away from tennis with my friends. I think Canberra is the best place in the world.

Quotes by Nick Kyrgios

We live in a bizarre world - there are cameras in our house!

Quotes by Nick Lachey

Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.

Quotes by Nick Clooney

The U.S. dropped more high explosives on Vietnam than the Allies used on Germany and Japan together in the Second World War.

Quotes by Nick Davies

Back in the 1980s, the 'News of the World' had specialised in digging into the privacy of criminals. In the 1990s, enriched by the excavation of Princess Diana's volatile life, they had widened their work to mine the activities of...

Quotes by Nick Davies

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture...

Quotes by Nick Davies

Something very worrying has been going on at Scotland Yard. We now know that in dealing with the phone-hacking affair at the 'News of the World,' they cut short their original inquiry; suppressed evidence; misled the public and the press;...

Quotes by Nick Davies

I think one of the things the writers' festival does that is very good is that it brings writers from around the world and around the country and locally and puts them all in the one spot together, and that's...

Quotes by Nick Earls

For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services,...

Quotes by Nick Clegg

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

Quotes by Nicholas M. Butler

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

Quotes by Nicholas Negroponte

If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.

Quotes by Nicholas Negroponte

It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.

Quotes by Nicholas Negroponte

As the world has grown bigger for our country, the opportunities greater, the chances more glittering for our commerce and our people, too many of those who practice politics have taken a cramped and limited view of Europe and the...

Quotes by Nicholas Soames

I think Churchill would have thought it extraordinary that we would have thought ourselves so successful, so powerful, so well thought of in the world that we could afford to give up this extraordinary relationship we have in this great...

Quotes by Nicholas Soames

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of quotes are gathered on the "World" page?
A thoughtful mix — from the surprising origin of the word "Amen" in Western prayer, to feeling that "our world was very atomized" after moving to a new city, to an obsession with novels like 'War and Peace' that portrayed a world with a strong social fabric.
Are these quotes optimistic or critical about the world?
Mostly reflective and a little critical — several point out something missing or changed, like a more connected past captured in old novels versus a more fragmented present. If you want something more upbeat about the world, Good quotes or Great quotes might suit better.
Is there a quote here about sports and the world?
Yes — one touches on being "world champions" in the context of how team-building has changed, showing how "world" can apply to competition and money as much as culture.
What connects these quotes to the idea of Life?
Many of them are really about how life feels within a larger world — connected or isolated, spiritual or fragmented. For a broader take on that same territory, see Life quotes.
What's the best way to use a "World" quote?
They work well when you want to make a bigger point — about connection, change, or how things used to be — rather than a quick personal caption. Pair one with a Best quote if you want to round out the message.

Sports also make an appearance, with a line about how money now decides world championships more than loyalty does. See also Best Quotes and Life Quotes.