World Quotes

Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II.

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do.

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'

People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.