World Quotes

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do.

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'

People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars. I entered a phase during which I insisted on having the same style of glasses Reggie had: gold wire frames with the double bar across.

We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.

Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.