World Quotes

Every time I toe the rubber, it's no different for me than it was in the World Series.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory.

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.