It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
I had always thought of Chris as my kid brother and watching how this kid, as I still thought of him, had affected so many people's lives around the world was incredible.
~By Margot Kidder ~
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 Allen ~
There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.
~By Josh Lucas ~
And then '74 as I mentioned and then the 1990 world cup was our team was the team of the reunification you know, so we were the team for both sides of Germany so now, you know throughout the last 16 years, we've melted together. And now comes the next milestone.
~By Jurgen Klinsmann ~
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
~By Roger Waters ~
The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a period of time, maybe three or four years. If you haven't made it in your chosen art form, dump it.
~By Cliff Richard ~
Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
~By Franklin P. Jones ~
I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2.
~By Eric Bristow ~
Love is the river of life in the world.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.
~By John Ashcroft ~
Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
~By George Washington Carver ~
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
~By Michael Tippett ~
Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.
~By Barbara Boxer ~
Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
~By Hal Lindsey ~
I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.
~By George W. Bush ~
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
~By Gore Vidal ~
America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.
~By Tom Clancy ~
I will be sad. I've gotten very attached to Harry and all that goes on in his world, I guess I'll just be kind of tasting every bit of it because it will be the last one.
~By Mary Grandpre ~
It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and no country around the world can devalue its way to prosperity, to be competitive. It is not a viable, feasible strategy, and we will not engage in it.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.
~By John McCarthy ~
I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war.
~By John Edward Christopher Hill ~
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge.
~By Lucy Lawless ~
As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.
~By Roger Mudd ~
Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
~By Horace Walpole ~
A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.
~By Donella Meadows ~
When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me.
~By Chester Brown ~
Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?
~By Bjorn Lomborg ~
The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.
~By Peter Buffett ~
After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.
~By John James Audubon ~
The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.
~By Bill Bryson ~
There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing.
~By Arto Lindsay ~
May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~
There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.
~By Aaron Allston ~
If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!
~By Vivian Campbell ~
Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.
~By Christine Gregoire ~
As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality.
~By Mike Rogers ~
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
Some of the bravest and the best men of all the world, certainly in law enforcement, have made their contributions while they were undercover.
~By Thomas Foran ~
Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us.
~By Mark Bittman ~
Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
~By Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ~
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
~By Gabrielle Union ~
I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything's a bit brighter and more in focus.
~By Robbie Coltrane ~
We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world's top teams any more.
~By Franz Beckenbauer ~
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
~By Adam Duritz ~
What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.
~By Mary Austin ~
Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.
~By Kimi Raikkonen ~
While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
~By Yahoo Serious ~
The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
~By Jose Saramago ~
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
~By John Calvin ~
Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.
~By Margaret Mahy ~
We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.
~By John Perkins ~
Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.
~By Alan Cox ~
Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
~By Bruce Barton ~
We can not underestimate the potential harm North Korea's capabilities can cause for the rest of the world.
~By Zach Wamp ~
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
~By Anthony Burgess ~
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
~By Edmond de Goncourt ~
The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.
~By Morris Dees ~
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 ~
I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships.
~By James Caan ~
Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.
~By John Frusciante ~
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
~By Georges Simenon ~
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
~By David Attenborough ~
It is not more people that are needed in the world but better people, physically, morally and mentally. This question of raising the quality of our American population must also be taken into account in the question of immigration.
~By Agnes E. Meyer ~
I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.
~By Martin Sheen ~
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.
~By Johann Most ~
I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
~By Yo-Yo Ma ~
I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.
~By Chris Van Allsburg ~
All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.
~By Ralph Venning ~
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
~By Bob Dylan ~
We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.
~By Christina Hoff Sommers ~
We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.
~By Kjell Magne Bondevik ~
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
There's nothing so rewarding as to make people realize they are worthwhile in this world.
~By Bob Anderson ~
We saw when those World Trade towers came down what these terrorists will do.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
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 ~
Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.
~By Charles Templeton ~
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.
~By Johann Arndt ~
When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.
~By Daniel Greenberg ~
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.
~By Randy Travis ~
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
~By Francis Picabia ~
We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.
~By Warren Buffett ~
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
~By Billie Jean King ~
We met and married when both of us knew exactly what our jobs were. He was only 32, but he'd been all over the place. I'd been working on films and television shows all over the world.
~By Joanna Lumley ~
Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.
~By Lindsey Graham ~
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