World Quotes

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid.

The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013.

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

Why do other first world countries give children so many fewer vaccines than we do? Vaccines save lives, but might be harming some children. Is moderation such a terrible idea?

Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.

Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.

There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.