World Quotes

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

We knew that if we had to win the World Cup, the defensive side of the game had to be better, which means bowlers will have to bowl tight and we will have to field better.

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The Biblical world view sees Earth and its ecosystems as the effect of a wise God's creation and... therefore robust, resilient, and self-regulating, like the product of any good engineer.

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

There will be a lot of competitive and strong companies coming here and even though Kosovo is a small country that undoubtedly has a lot to offer to global trade; one of our main interests is to expose it to the world market.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.

I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

I've enjoyed winning races in both 500cc and MotoGP and enjoyed leading the world championship and contesting it right up until the end.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.