World Quotes

I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.

Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.

Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.

I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.'

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

I certainly didn't think of a world record in the first 50 meters because I was simply too slow for that.

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.