There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
Jonathan Swift
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Dietrick Bonhoeffer
The opera world was shocked! But the image is very classical. It's taken from Botticelli's portrait of Venus, who's standing in a seashell with her hair covering her body. It's very sensual. It represents the vulnerable side of me. Although I'm not wearing any clothes, it comes across very well.
Sarah Brightman
No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
Phillips Brooks
We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I.
Vanna Bonta
Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve.
Grenville Kleiser
This shitty world sometimes produces a rose The scent of it lingers and then it just goes
Paul David Hewson
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics (A Mathematician's Apology).
Godfrey Harold Hardy
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
George Bernard Shaw
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
Francis Herbert Bradley
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
Paul Valery
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
Anthony Burgess