World Quotes
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In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda posters. Such is the case in North Korea. Images of Kim Il-sung are depicted in vivid colours. Rays of yellow and orange emanate from his face: he is the sun.
Barbara Demick
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
Baron d'Holbach
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar Gracian
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
Karen Traviss
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The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.
Mandy Patinkin
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People everywhere in the world have Russian connections. There is nothing wrong with having Russian connections as long as you're transparent about it.
Kersti Kaljulaid
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The greatest thing we can do is to give each other a safe space to truly, truly be ourselves in the world.
Sara Bareilles
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
Ferdinand Marcos
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See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.
Garrett Hedlund
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I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.
Lenny Kravitz
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If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
Fernando Alonso
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
Quincy Jones
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
Cameron Diaz
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I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.
Kathryn Harrison
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Alas! the great world goes its way,And takes its truth from each new day;They do not quit, nor can retain,Far less consider it again.
Arthur Hugh Clough
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Google has been an amazing benefit for our business. People understand the whole world of mapping and want to do more than not get lost. They want to do spatial analytics. It's been fantastic for us.
Jack Dangermond
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The only reason I ever shared my health journey with the world was because I felt it to be my duty to sufferers that are bed-ridden and dying because there has yet to be found a proper diagnostic test for Lyme Disease in this country.
Yolanda Hadid
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
Mahershala Ali
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
Gabe Newell
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The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
Jonathan Sacks
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There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
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The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called to serve were World War II veterans participating in Ready Reserve units.
J. Anthony Lukas
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'You must save yourselves,' Rogol Domedonfors told them. 'You have ignored the ancient wisdom, you have been too indolent to learn, you have sought easy complacence from religion, rather than facing manfully to the world.'
Jack Vance