World Quotes

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

I will never forget the bright September day, standing at my desk in the White House, when my young assistant said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center - and then a second one - and a third, the Pentagon.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

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.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed.

With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that.

Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.