Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a laboratory for everybody. Donald Barthelme
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. Joseph Campbell
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant. Ralph Waldo Emerson
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world. Louisa May Alcott
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. Frederick Douglass
People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking. Bodhidharma
People say to me, 'You're so lucky. You get to see the world.' But I don't. I go to the hotel and to the pools and back again. That's it. Michael Phelps
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Playing in the playoffs is the best basketball in the world, and if you can learn under that pressure, succeed under that pressure, it gives you more confidence the next year. Tony Parker
Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years. Martin Amis
Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life. Jackie Joyner Kersee
Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. Edwin Louis Cole
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.Karl Heinrich Marx
Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer. Bryant H.McGill
Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.Lord Chesterfield
Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that. Venus Williams
Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with Butch Reynolds for many years. I won all the races, but Butch was the world record holder before I came into the sport, he was extremely talented and he was the only other man running 43 seconds. Michael Johnson
Running was a part of my hardwiring, and that's what I wanted to do. So this is what I tell people who talk about wanting to follow their passion. 'It doesn't have to be running. It can be basket weaving. Be the best basket weaver in the world. Throw your heart and soul into it.' Dean Karnazes
Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they're going to change the world we live in, they - and all of us - have to be able to think about a world that works differently. Samuel R.Delany