World Quotes

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Europe cannot survive another world war.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

The goal of this Nation, I so strongly believe, is to be a preeminent world power. We have to understand what comes with that: The responsibility to be strong.

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.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.