World Quotes
O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh
And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world.
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
The world is wide, full of happenings. Keep this in mind and never believe 'I'm the onlyone who knows.'
The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?
It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
What has been cut apart cannot be glued back together. Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past, you who enter the world of fluid modernity.
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.
Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.
Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.
When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.
If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.
The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.
I personally think that we can win the World Cup. We are improving with every game. With such a young average age in the squad we can only carry on improving.
You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.
Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.
In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last.
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
New York City is the most important location in the world... it is the center for fashion, culture and finance.
After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development.
I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.
Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
One of the first things I look for in a woman I meet is a sense of humor, a sort of light acceptance of the world and the people who live in it.
When someone says, 'I love you,' he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, 'I hate you,' she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.
There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.