My World Quotes

The United States has used force abroad more than 130 times, but has only declared war five times - the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War, and World Wars I and II.

I am one of the lucky people in the world; I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it.

My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You'll be singing for the world someday.

We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world.

You can't touch the world by giving up a Starbucks...We've dumbed it down.

Granddaddy can pick up a phone and call anyone in the world and they will take his call. But he doesn't know it.

We're at war against the ultimate evil in the world, and We're going to win.

I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train.

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

In this ridiculously polarized, obstructionist world, the operating principle should be, Let's get something done. Not, Let's freeze everything.

America is the primary engine of growth in the world and we are the only beacon of free trade left, and open markets.

I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.

Politicians must pick sides regularly; every time they vote. So it's perhaps natural that they see the world as a battle between competing groups.

All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.

I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you have to have reels for a movie.

Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.

We are fortunate to have some of the greatest and best teachers in the world, but we want to make sure that those few that try to sneak through the system are caught in advance.

For the longest time, you couldnt even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

Let's get to a world where we don't litigate the aftermath, because it doesn't happen in the first place.

Making the right choices on the worlds we explore is going to be our biggest challenge.

The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns.

Real space movies have to involve zero gravity and a world without up or down.

I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.

With the situation in Iraq growing ever more dangerous, the 34-member Coalition of The Willing are, one by one, dropping out to join the other coalition known as Most of The Rest of The World.

That's what it's like to be a comedian. You basically stand and stare at the world and hope it craps out cause that's a good year for you. So that's not a pleasant feeling.

I suppose in John Kerry's world good diplomacy lets the boys in the bar finish raping the girl for fear of causing a fuss. Okay, that was unfair.

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

In the comedies I've been lucky enough to be a part of a world like Judd Apatow's, where I believe comedy comes from real people.

Maybe if you play somebody in a certain world people sometimes misinterpret that it's a support of that world or that occupation or something.

When I first met the world, basically, or introduced myself to people, I was in 'Superbad,' and I feel the same way I felt promoting 'Superbad' in an underdog style that I feel promoting 'Moneyball.'

It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.

It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.

We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years.

We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.

Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I don't see how you could stand it psychologically.

I can't stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don't believe that everything that's wrong with the world has a cure.

Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.

Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and making something beautiful out of it.

If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money.

Bull riding is probably the most dangerous sport in the world in terms of head injuries.

Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.

As long as American democracy remains healthy, there will be reporters willing to pursue the truth, even if that means incurring the wrath of the most powerful person in the world.

Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.

The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.

What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.

They held each other and wept as the night closed its fist around their tiny shelter, and the world below them seethed with killers both living and dead.

Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.

More action packed than a Cardiff pub with Anne Robinson.

...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.