World Quotes
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.
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I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.
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Everybody that's employed by 'WWE' - the biggest wrestling company in the world - should be good wrestlers able to tell good stories.
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When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.
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Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.
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Even though someone has died, a piece of their spirit can still be alive. That's an exciting world for me to take music into, or to attempt to do that.
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In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.
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Love the whole world as if it were your self; then you will truly care for all things.
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My favourite thing in the world is going out to get Chinese food, then coming home and renting a movie.
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When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.
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Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
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Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.
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I am neither the handsomest nor the richest nor the most powerful, but I've had the greatest women in the world.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
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One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
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Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.
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The number of people who believe in stopping violence in the world is wildly greater than those that want to perpetrate it. When everybody has a smartphone, the ability for people to actually do something about violence goes up significantly.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world, is a release for me.
