World Quotes

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

I've set no world record.

My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of.

In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes.

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.

There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

I'm not necessarily proud of the World Cups and the grand slams won or lost, the amount of points I scored, this record or that.

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.