World Quotes

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.

We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

There are no friends at cards or world politics.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II.

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do.