If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
~By Bill Gates ~
But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.
~By Alfred Doblin ~
Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
~By Judy Collins ~
It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.
~By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ~
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
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.
~By Barbara Amiel ~
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
~By Karl Popper ~
Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.
~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
~By Ted Turner ~
The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.
~By Herbert Simon ~
Being offended is part of being in the real world.
~By Courtney Love ~
Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
~By Yoko Ono ~
This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
~By Max Weber ~
That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings.
~By Alex Winter ~
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
~By Nina Simone ~
I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.
~By Bryan Singer ~
Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting.
~By T. H. White ~
Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.
~By Adam Schiff ~
Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.
~By Howard Stringer ~
A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
~By Christopher Hampton ~
The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.
~By Jonathan Miller ~
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
~By Abraham Joshua Heschel ~
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.
~By Isaac Asimov ~
To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
~By Michael Korda ~
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
~By Jimi Hendrix ~
I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent.
~By Lisa Snowdon ~
The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.
~By Toshihiko Fukui ~
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
~By Ferdinand I ~
France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America."
~By Helen Rowland ~
Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.
~By Ethel Merman ~
Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products. This does not mean that evolution does not have metaphysical implications; I remain convinced that this is the case.
~By Simon Conway Morris ~
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
~By Francois Fenelon ~
If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.
~By Roger Penrose ~
I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.
~By Ang Lee ~
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
~By Jimi Hendrix ~
But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.
~By Coolio ~
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if we didn't have a salary cap.
~By Jerry Jones ~
I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.
~By Abebe Bikila ~
If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.
~By Jeanne Moreau ~
To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one in the world is like you. So capitalize on it.
~By Jack Lord ~
You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.
~By Patricia Hewitt ~
She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.
~By Joan Rivers ~
I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you're in a bad situation and it seems like it's the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it's not.
~By Lee Ann Womack ~
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
~By E. B. White ~
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
~By Henry Ford ~
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
~By Thomas Paine ~
At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.
~By William John Wills ~
As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of.
~By Nina Hagen ~
The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.
~By John McKinley ~
The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world.
~By Wilford O. Cross ~
The 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 am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.
~By Richard Lugar ~
There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
~By Natalie Portman ~
U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.
~By John Bruton ~
Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.
~By Yo-Yo Ma ~
The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
~By Ramakrishna ~
God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
~By Paul Dirac ~
The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world.
~By Sun Myung Moon ~
The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.
~By Jim Broadbent ~
Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.
~By Anita Hill ~
It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.
~By Jenny Shipley ~
Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.
~By Klaus Schulze ~
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
The world I was born into was one filled with music.
~By Martha Reeves ~
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 ~
Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.
~By Ernest Bevin ~
We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.
~By Francis John McConnell ~
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
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 ~
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
~By Mary Wortley Montagu ~
Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.
~By Francis Parker Yockey ~
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
~By Henry Ford ~
I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
~By George W. Bush ~
These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.
~By Christiaan Rudolf de Wet ~
If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.
~By Lou Gerstner ~
I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.
~By Juan Cole ~
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
~By Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~
The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
~By Anne Rice ~
When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.
~By Colin Mochrie ~
America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.
~By Nancy Pelosi ~
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.
~By Marc Maron ~
When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems.
~By Jon Fishman ~
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
~By Helen Keller ~
We are anthill men upon an anthill world.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.
~By John Boehner ~
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.
~By Henri Matisse ~
It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.
~By Gavyn Davies ~
I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.
~By Penelope Spheeris ~
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
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