This World Quotes

Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half

I think the world should be one community.

I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.

I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.

Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, though I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.

Leaders will have to give clear and decisive leadership towards a world of tolerance and respect for difference, and an uncompromising commitment to peaceful solutions of conflicts and disputes.

There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.

We should take heart from our own experience and performance. In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many.

When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.

Trade justice for the developing world and for this generation is a truly significant way for the developed countries to show commitment to bringing about an end to global poverty.

Each breath we take, each step we make, each smile we realize, is a positive contribution to peace... a necessary step in the direction of peace for the world.

The most important thing that we can do for the healing of our world is to hear inside ourselves, the sounds of the earth crying.

Many of us worry about the situation of the world . . . We need to remain calm, to see clearly. Meditation is a means to be aware, and to try to help.

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life

You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.

The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.

The world is full of dumb paperwork.

All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world.

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together...this is the great paradox.

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information.

We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

If the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.

I can't see myself without pink lipstick. I can go without it for a couple of days, but if there was no more pink lipstick in this world, I'd be useless. Seriously.

Because I am an African I reserve the right to say that Africa does not exist simply to make people in this country [the UK], or anywhere else in the developed world, feel good about themselves.

You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

I'd rather be No. 2 in Chile and No. 1 in the world.

The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.

Only God Forgives was very much a generation gap in a way. It was all the youth of the world that embraced it. I make films for young people. That's what I will continue to do.

Can you envision a world without men? No wrongdoing and bunches of euphoric, fat women.

I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection.

Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.

Talent can pop up anywhere in the world, it's not just one city block.

This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.

In blue Light nature space the whole world, wide grazing land, the open spaces wind across the land and the sky, blue, high

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

In much of the world the U.S. is regarded as a leading terrorist state.

I think this country and the world would be far better off if the US is not an outlaw state.

If you don't want to be the biggest band in the world, you may as well pack it in.

Jewish success is due to a culture that promotes excellence, blessed with self discipline, education, dedication and a quest for leaving this world a better place.

It's fun to peek into other people's worlds and see how they go about doing things.

A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent.

We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.

"World War III, was the Cold War, and the U.S. won it".

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Never think negatively, for the negative thinker does a very dangerous thing. He pumps out negative thoughts into the world around him and thus activates the world negatively.

The tremendous efficiency and economy of the book has once again demonstrated itself. It's the world's most patient medium.

(Algerian athlete, 1996 Summer Olympics, on the 3000m world record) I think my 3:27 for 1500m is worth 7:21 for 3000m.

I embraced, I think, the process of becoming No. 1 of the world, which was long and difficult, but it's sweeter in the end.