This World Quotes

One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period.

Individuals by themselves can make a difference. And by making a difference, you can improve the world.

The United States has put more money on HIV, AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis than any country in the world and it's having an impact real quick.

The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were dying before they reached the age of 5.

I have this very positive view of the world getting better and better. The list of things that could be huge setbacks is not very long: A nuclear war, climate change and epidemics.

[Africa] is the one continent where you still have a lot more young people than old people. So making sure they're healthy, good nutrition, good education. That'll be important for the world.

The world is a colony of the US. The twentieth century was the US's century.

Dinosaur fossils were placed in rocks by prankster God just to make human beings think the world is older than it is.

Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to the world from which they were taken.

Photography opens your eyes a little wider to the world around you.

Simplicity: The New Competitive Advantage in a World of More, Better, Faster.

The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around.

People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.

All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world.

I don't play them a lot of minutes. I have great starters. I have All-Stars, world champions.

In Republican fantasy world, everything is always Obama's fault. Somehow, he's weak and he's ineffective, and yet he pulls the strings on everything in the world.

They told us to buy duct tape and portable radios so that if the world does end, we can all listen to Rush Limbaugh blame it on Clinton.

The world is on fire, and I'm doing my best to help steer the firetruck.

We don't know exactly where all the tipping points are in the physical world for inescapable damage, but we're clearly reaching close to some of them.

It was huge mistake to avoid working with the rest of the world because (a) we're the largest source of the problem: 4% of us who are in the U.S. produce 25% of the world's carbon dioxide.

I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local - the logic of sun and wind is diffuse and spread out, not concentrated like the logic of coal and oil.

Delhi is locked in a complete choking smog at the moment - they've had to close schools in one of the world's biggest cities. They have their own reasons for needing to get off fossil fuels fast.

When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the world [environmentalism] is.

Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.

Probably nothing that we have ever managed to do quite equals the basic undermining of the physical stability of the planet on which most of the world's poor people depend.

[Kids] will grow up into a world that's difficult and wonderful, and they'll make the best of it they can, and hopefully help turn it in the best possible direction.

America is the longest argument in the world.

There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.

The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It's going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent's generation.

The world's going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.

Drive through a yellow light, and you may be ticketed thanks to a camera tied onto a pole. Everybody's watching everything. And then sending it out to the world via email.

It (broadcast journalism) is a brutal arena where the knives are sharp and the toughest Kevlar vest in the world will not protect you forever.

I want to be Lon Chaney. I want to be Karloff. I want to help people escape the mundane world. I want to make their skins crawl. And I want them to love it every bit as much as I do.

It's the greatest thing in the world, natural enthusiasm. You are nothing without it.

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States

And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.

A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever!

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.

Only if the dragon and the eagle turn their sights from each other and make room for each other in the world they share, can they reach new and brighter horizons.

It's always been my belief that the victory of Islam will never take place until a Muslim state is established.. in the heart of the Islamic world.

I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos.

Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you're still out. Baseball is an island of stability in an unstable world.

An island of surety in a changing world.

In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.

It's the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you're on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry - they wear you out and there's nothing like being on a great team.

Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.

I got to see the best players in the world every year the week after the U.S. Nationals, which is now known as the US Open, in Los Angeles. That made a huge difference in my life.

It's very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.

When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, "This song ["Ordinary World"] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio]."