World Quotes

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

I'm blessed that I'm not content. Whenever I work with kids, which I'm passionate about, I want them to know that, yes, two World Cups, two Asian Cups, but I've done it the hard way.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

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.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Once the World Cup preparations begin there will hardly be an opportunity to do so, since we'll have to put all our energy into the team. We coaches have a list of priorities and dealing with the media isn't in the top five.

I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?