World Quotes
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Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
Francis of Assisi
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Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.
John Boyd Orr
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You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!
Danai Gurira
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We do a lot of great things, but it's a competitive league. A lot of great guys around us do the work and help us elevate our game, and that's what makes the NFL so special. We have a lot of competitive players who are the best in the world at what they do, and they all compete against each other.
Antonio Brown
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Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.
Nana Mouskouri
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I've been a Yankees fan for a long time. When I was a kid in the mid-'70s, the Yankees were really great. They had Reggie Jackson in '77. I was 8 years old at the time. He hit three home runs to win the World Series in game six against the Dodgers, and I was just hooked.
James Gray
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You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.
Keinan Abdi Warsame
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My parents were working performers, so obviously I saw that there wasn't a lot of fairy tale going on there. It was a precarious world. One that they were deeply committed to and deeply loved, but one that required a lot of hard work.
Megan Follows
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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
Patrick Ness
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The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
Chanakya
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The feeling of exultant joy that there is anyone like that in the world. I shall never see him again, and he did not notice me, or would ever, but there is such a person alive, there is such a life, and I am here on this earth, in this age, to know it!
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
Wendell Phillips
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In a perfect world an idea could be born, nourished, developed and made known to everyone, criticized and perfected, and put to good use without the crude fact of financial support ever entering in to the process. Seldom, if ever, in the practical world in which we live does this occur.
Warren Weaver
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.
Kim Campbell
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Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity.
Pranab Mukherjee
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I think that if everybody committed themselves to making a better world than how we found it, things would be much better than what they are.
Luvvie Ajayi
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We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
George Bernard Shaw
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Freediving can be extremely dangerous. It's got an incredibly high fatality rate outside of competition. But there's never been a fatality in competition. In terms of spear fishing and people who train by themselves, it's the second most dangerous sport in the world after base jumping. If you black out by yourself, you drown.
Tanc Sade
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The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone who just used to sit quietly at a piano and sing and play. It became very important to me not to lose sight of that.
Kate Bush
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...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?
Louise Erdrich
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I don't feel I was 'born American,' but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II, and I craved something I could identify with. When I became a student at Harvard in the 1950s, America very quickly filled the vacuum. I felt I was American, but I think it's more revealing of America how quickly others here accepted me.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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What the world does not need is a Haggadah that pats itself on the back. It needs a Haggadah that gets out of the way, that starts a conversation and gets out of the way.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.
Yogi Berra