World Quotes

It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.

For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.

Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.

I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

The conservatives want to revolutionize the world all at once. And that's a dangerous proposal.

I FIND IT SO DIFFICULT NOT TO HATE, WHEN I DO NOT HATE I FEEL WE FEW ARE SO LONELY IN THE WORLD

One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity.

In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.

Disneyland. The world's biggest people trap, built by a mouse.

You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.

The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.

The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough."

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.

I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.

Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.

The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.

The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.

The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world.

Canada entered World War I as a colony and came out a nation.

. . . the world is filled with the kind of customers who deserve the care and attention I advocate, and I'd be willing to jump through hoops to win and keep them.

In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.

The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

I'm an emotional guy, I cry at movies, man, so beating GSP and winning the world title... yeah, I'll probably cry in the Octagon.

You need to get up in the morning and say, 'Boy, I'm going to - in my own stupid way - save the world today.'

Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind for you.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.

God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.

I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.

After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity.

At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food is money, food is power.