World Quotes

The globalization of the capital market is actually part of economic globalization. This will create a change in the entire world economy, not just restricted to some fields in some countries.

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.

And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.

I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made.

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.