World Quotes

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.

That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which bore within them the seeds of instability.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Imagination rules the world.