In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.
~By Henry James Sumner Maine ~
I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.
~By Little Richard ~
An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act.
~By Allyson Schwartz ~
Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
~By Ian Mckellen ~
No matter who becomes chancellor, Poland and Germany will remain neighbours, strategic partners, not only within the European Union, but also world partners, and I don't believe anything could change in our relations.
~By Marek Belka ~
The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.
~By Tran Duc Luong ~
Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him.
~By Lynn Johnston ~
There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.
~By John Eaton ~
Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.
~By Zhang Ziyi ~
In today's world, new infections and diseases can spread across the country and even across the world in a matter of days, or even hours, making early detection critical.
~By John Linder ~
Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.
~By Richard Linklater ~
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
~By Vilhjalmur Stefansson ~
All the world loves a clown.
~By Cole Porter ~
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.
~By Jan Peter Balkenende ~
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
~By Abu Bakr ~
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
~By William Lyon Phelps ~
It was far more fun than work doing those shows for all those years, we all loved each other and loved going to work, we all understood how fortunate we were to be in that place, to have achieved that success worldwide.
~By Steve Kanaly ~
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
Ron allowed us to see right away the private piece of a person about to become very public. I suspect we're going to see more of her very private world - Laura's private experience. I'm not sure yet how public she's going to be about the actions she's going to have to take.
~By Mary McDonnell ~
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
~By Ron Paul ~
I'm not interested in becoming a bigger star, I'm not interested in being the wealthiest guy in the world. I'm doing fine, I love acting, and I want to do it for the rest of my life.
~By Seth Green ~
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.
~By Zalmay Khalilzad ~
If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy.
~By Jeremy London ~
In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.
~By William Bernbach ~
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings.
~By Frank Stella ~
But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places.
~By Michael Tilson Thomas ~
In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.
~By Joichi Ito ~
There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.
~By Tim Robbins ~
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
~By Teilhard de Chardin ~
I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.
~By Alvin Ailey ~
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
~By Jean Paul ~
I love taking you inside a world that you're not apart of and showing how actually works.
~By Jerry Bruckheimer ~
However, there is no assurance that we can produce world class players so soon. Only time can tell.
~By Jahangir Khan ~
The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
~By Sidney Sheldon ~
Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.
~By Frank Bruno ~
I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.
~By Paul Nurse ~
In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.
~By Harold Coffin ~
God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.
~By Josiah Royce ~
We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.
~By James Hillman ~
Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him.
~By Jennifer Connelly ~
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.
~By Jones Very ~
By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?
~By Rick Danko ~
Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.
~By David Caruso ~
I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I'm very thankful for everything they've done for me so, of course, I'm going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love kepping my life to myself - that's how I've always been.
~By Vanessa Hudgens ~
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.
~By Henry Miller ~
The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
~By Edward de Bono ~
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
~By Karl Marx ~
I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.
~By Marc Almond ~
The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
~By Annie Dillard ~
Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.
~By Dick Dale ~
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.
~By James Gates Percival ~
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
~By Caroline Gordon ~
Compared to the United States and certainly a lot of other countries around the world... per year, Australians do see more films.
~By David Pratt ~
The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.
~By Jim Fowler ~
The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.
~By James Clavell ~
It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.
~By June Jordan ~
In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
~By Omar Bongo ~
I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup.
~By Jeremy London ~
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.
~By Robert Fulghum ~
I am not the world's most confident person.
~By Heston Blumenthal ~
I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at.
~By Kevin Bacon ~
The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.
~By Dave Barry ~
We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.
~By Deepak Chopra ~
If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.
~By Linda Blair ~
There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
~By John Irving ~
Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.
~By Erykah Badu ~
People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.
~By Studs Terkel ~
I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses.
~By Anthony Michael Hall ~
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
~By George Santayana ~
I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.
~By Harvey Fierstein ~
Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective.
~By David Bruce ~
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
~By Bill Veeck ~
Everytime someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.
~By Whitley Strieber ~
Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.
~By Peter York ~
The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.
~By Georges Simenon ~
Someone needs to talk sense to the president. But these people are not world travelers. This president, much as I like him, had all the opportunities in the world.
~By Chris Matthews ~
The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.
~By Eric Bogosian ~
We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit of enterprise and the love of liberty.
~By Michael Bloomberg ~
The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.
~By Wim Wenders ~
I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.
~By Tony Campolo ~
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
~By Boris Pasternak ~
Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain.
~By Jon Stewart ~
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
~By William Hazlitt ~
We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent.
~By Bob Livingston ~
The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.
~By Michel Patini ~
Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
~By James Lane Allen ~
I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.
~By Martin Sheen ~
If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.
~By Henry Kravis ~
I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.
~By Alcee Hastings ~
Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.
~By Townsend Harris ~
I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.
~By Peter Garrett ~
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