World Quotes

Liberal progressivism evolved after our Constitution. It has repeatedly failed all over the world so why do we think it could be successful here in the United States of America?

To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them.

Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

I still have many goals left, especially the Overall World Cup standings.

I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.

My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.