World Quotes

You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.

When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.

When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.

Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.

The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.

Externally we are a single being, but internally we are a world.

The only currency that will heal every culture is ceaseless love. To be a minister, we must walk like Jesus, talk like Jesus, and be like Jesus for a broken and dying world.

Population growth and the proliferation of mega-cities around the world redefines the entire global security agenda.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Every child begins the world again.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to think, and that is why people do so little of it.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre.

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.

In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level.

This is the soldier brave enough to tellThe glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,And rides through hell to save his country's life.

Oh, what a glory doth this world put on, for him who with a fervent heart goes forth under the bright and glorious sky, and looks on duties well performed, and days well spent.

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.

Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.

Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.

I think that trade is an important issue. Of course, we are 5 percent of the world's population; we have to trade with the other 95 percent. And we need to have smart, fair trade deals.

I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much the heart of the world they've created on film.

The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.

You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

God's message extends beyond borders. Anyone in the world can learn to forgive those who have injured them, however great or small that injury may be.

The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.

Palestine is not the ultimate goal of the Jews; the world is. Palestine is just the place for the world state headquarters.

The world is like an enormous set of scales. When evil begins to outweigh good, angels cram themselves in on the lighter side. You can't see them, but there they are, restoring the balance.

It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.

The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living