World Quotes

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.

There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we'd call the millennium.

These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way.

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.

Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'

The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

The crowd is wonderful. There is always a superb atmosphere in the finish area. It's good for the World Cup. I missed it a lot when I had to rest and it's so nice to be back here.