World Quotes

The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.

I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.

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.

The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.

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.

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.