World Quotes

• The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators, plasterers, artists from the world of building.

  

  Mario Botta
  • World
  • History
  • Architecture

• There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Ideas
  • Consequence
  • Neighbor

• Works of genius are the first things in this world.

  

  John Keats
  • World

• It's a world where anyone you're selling to probably has just as much information as you, has lots of choices, and all kinds of ways to talk back. And so, the low road is less and less of an option. You actually have to take the high road: Be more honest, more direct, more transparent.

  

  Dan Pink
  • High
  • Road
  • Choices

• The fan base that I've had all these years has come along. Some of them are not as plugged into the digital world, so they want to go out and buy the CD at Walmart or something.

  

  Alan Jackson
  • World

• War will pass when injustice passes. Never before, unless hope leaves the world.

  

  Agnes Repplier
  • World
  • War
  • Hope

• What's unique about Washington is that no one's from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.

  

  Mark Batterson
  • Change
  • Unique
  • Difference

• There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • World
  • Joy
  • Acting

• We don't do this kind of work for awards or to be recognised. We do this to share stories with the world.

  

  Daniel Berehulak
  • World
  • Work

• I've traveled the world and been about everywhere you can imagine. There's not anything I'm scared of except my wife.

  

  Lee Trevino
  • World
  • Wife

• The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.

  

  Arthur Henderson
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Struggle

• The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.

  

  Charles de Gaulle
  • World
  • Power

• Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity. The malady is ludicrous, sad, excruciating and, above all, instantly diagnosable.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Nice
  • Brother
  • Sad

• There are good reasons for not wanting to host the Olympics. The Games can be costly and, in spite of their patriotic overtones, can unintentionally expose a nation's weaknesses to the world.

  

  Mary Pilon
  • World
  • Good
  • Patriotic

• We are a blue planet and an ocean world.

  

  Nainoa Thompson
  • World
  • Blue
  • Ocean

• The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.

  

  Jan Hammer
  • World
  • Band

• When I was growing up, the Spanish-speaking world was Balkanized. We were isolated. We didn't know what was happening in cultural terms in Ecuador, Colombia and Chile. Nowadays, this has changed a lot - fortunately for writers and readers. There is much more integration.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Spanish

• A life spent defensively, worried, is a life wasted. You know when I need to die? When I'm done living. When I can't walk, can't eat, can't see, when I'm a crotchety old bastard, mad at the world. Then I can die.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Life
  • Done
  • Die

• From France, you can call anywhere in the world for free. Americans can't do that!

  

  Xavier Niel
  • World
  • Free
  • You

• The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to.

  

  Alden Ehrenreich
  • Reality
  • Imagination
  • Vision

• I may or may not be the best fighter in the world but I want to be the best entertainer, so when you see my fights before and after, you'll remember my entrance and the fight. When I've walked in there, you'll know I've walked in there!

  

  Dave Legeno
  • World
  • May
  • Remember

• I'm not a teacher; I'm not a historian. I'm trying to create a world for my characters.

  Colson Whitehead
  • World
  • Trying
  • Teacher

• In the business world, if you're not looking ahead, you're missing something.

  

  Jared Polis
  • World
  • Business
  • Missing

• Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and race relations, creating scenarios so indelible, you swear they are right outside your door.

  

  Caroline Leavitt
  • She
  • Magic
  • Door

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