World Quotes

• When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in their adolescence I'll become the opposite of that, especially if I'm parked outside a high school party.

  

  Jerry O'Connell
  • School
  • High
  • Party

• Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and one sister, should they let the human race die out? I do not know the answer, but I do not think it can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Die
  • Brother
  • Sister

• Lexington is home to the University of Kentucky, where my husband and I teach, as well as to Transylvania University, the oldest college established west of the Allegheny Mountains, and several multinational companies; people come and go from all over the world.

  

  Kim Edwards
  • People
  • Home
  • College

• I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.

  

  John Waters
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • World
  • Think
  • Control

• You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Light
  • Find
  • Sparks

• The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it.

  

  Denise Crosby
  • Family
  • Perfect
  • Dark

• Technology gets a bad rap for keeping us glued to our screens instead of being present with whomever is around us, and while this can be true, it also allows us to connect with billions of people all over the world. For free.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • People
  • Bad
  • True

• Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Good
  • Religious

• More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don't use that capacity well.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • City
  • Fly
  • Strength

• The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the reason why America has been the most dynamic economy in the world for well over a century.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Why
  • America
  • Ideas

• We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• I want Dubai to be a place where everybody from all over the world meets each other, don't think of fighting or hate, just love it, enjoy their sport, and that's it.

  

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
  • Fighting
  • Everybody
  • Dubai

• When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

  

  Mark Van Doren
  • World
  • Why

• Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Music
  • Country
  • Mind

• It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Country
  • America
  • Democracy

• When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Long
  • Free
  • Values

• The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Good
  • Men
  • Evil

• If we wait for the world’s permission to shine, we will never receive it. The ego doesn’t give that permission. Only God does, and He has already done so. He has sent you here as His personal representative and is asking you to channel His love into the world. Are you waiting for a more important job? There isn’t one.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Important
  • Done

• For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

  

  Jesus Christ
  • Life
  • God
  • Son

• If you look at U.K. science, we collaborate with people across the whole world, and it's extremely important we continue to do so in the future.

  

  Mark Walport
  • People
  • Important
  • Future

• The United States has the world's largest and most innovative economy, an unmatched rule of law, and a free market that is the envy of the international community. For investors, we are the reserve currency.

  

  John Delaney
  • Free
  • Law
  • Community

• If most people were to take a moment to picture in their minds the average, not-for-profit, save-the-world girl, they... well, they probably wouldn't, because who wants to think about hemp, hairy legs, and Birkenstocks? But I'd rather eat a pair of Birkenstocks than put them on my feet, and I love, love, love my Christian Louboutins.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • People
  • Girl
  • Moment

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