World Quotes

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

I think that the World Cup is a big factor for this increased interest. I don't believe all of this is a result of just myself but also because of the others who are playing abroad.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I.

I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

The world economy today is recovering slowly, and there are still some destabilising factors and uncertainties. The underlying impact of the international financial crisis is far from over.

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army.

The best smell in the world is that man that you love.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

It should strengthen investors' confidence. This is done through transparency, high quality financial reports, and a standardized economic market. This is not just for China, but also for the world market as a whole.

Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.

When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.

Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.