World Quotes

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Liverpool have won everything but never a World Championship. I am sure in the future they will once again make the effort to win the tournament. They have had good rhythm in the Premier League this season.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Imagination rules the world.

Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Nobody criticised me when we qualified for the World Cup when I decided that the best shape for us going forward was three men at the back and stretching the pitch width-wise, which gives you options.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.

The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

Well, I know that I'll never forget that, but also I won't forget the hundreds of people who sent me letters, telegrams, and postcards during that World Series. There wasn't a single nasty message. Everybody tried to say something nice.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.