This World Quotes

A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.

America is the world's policeman, all right -- a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread most, a "domestic disturbance.

I say love, and the world populates itself with doves.

Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.

I have a deep attachment to the natural world. It's a major influence on my writing, and as I look out over the wonderful snow-covered Santa Fe hills, I'm grateful for every day that I live here.

These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

The world is your oyster... ...too bad you're allergic to shellfish.

Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950.

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

Boredom is not in the world, but in the way we see the world.

There are two kinds of world: the one we dream about and the real one.

When I was playing, they said soccer was a man's world and women should remain on the sidelines, all I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm

Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.

Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.

I wouldn't be here if I didn't believe I was good enough to be here and hopefully I can perform well for my club and try and get to the World Cup.

You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.

Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis about the world.

We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness.

The world wants to be deceived.

We're the only nation in the world where most of our poor people are fat.

The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.

A comedian is someone who tells the truth. Truth is the set of all jokes told by all comedians in the world.

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.

I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.

A more just world is possible.

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

I was trying to do like a spaghetti western but using World War II iconography.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.

Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

The most powerful State in the world, which up to now was relatively protected from terrorist violence, is no longer an inviolable sanctuary.

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.

A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen closely to our inner voice.

The only way for us to come out of poverty is to work hard. Poverty means begging throughout the world.

I have not forgotten that you can see the world through pieces of coloured glass.

Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world.

If I could create my own utopia, it would be this genderless world where we didn't have to talk about it.

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?