World Quotes

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

The problem with me is I always think I should've done better. I felt that after the World Cup final and through my whole career.

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

To say I have played through four World Cups, two Lions tours, 91 international games and a ridiculous number of injuries and other setbacks gives me an incredibly special feeling of fulfilment. I know myself well enough to know that I will never truly be satisfied.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.

I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Billy Konchellah with his World Championship titles, Paul Ereng with his Olympic gold and Wilson Kipketer with his World records are my role models.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.