World Quotes

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Every time I toe the rubber, it's no different for me than it was in the World Series.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory.

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.