World Quotes

• Because I live and work in Washington, D.C., I have a ringside seat at the world capital of The Persuasive Arts, or, as I like to call it, The Opinions Racket.

  

  Gene Weingarten
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

• There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

  

  Jill Clayburgh
  • Different
  • Women
  • Political

• We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Money
  • Dream
  • Civilization

• The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities to be impressed with it.

  

  James Madison
  • Good
  • God
  • Different

• The U.S. immigration system is the most generous in the world, providing each year more green cards for legal permanent residence with a clear path to full citizenship than all the rest of the nations of the world combined.

  

  Jan C. Ting
  • Rest
  • Path
  • Green

• The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

  

  Emile Zola
  • World
  • She

• The beautiful faces of the children I’ve met in Rwanda and in other countries are with me every day and fuel my passion to raise awareness of the global hunger issue. That’s why I’m urging everyone to join me and #PassTheRedCup for Yum! Brands’ World Hunger Relief effort. Together we can move millions of children from hunger to hope.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Country
  • Children
  • Why

• We kind of write pop songs, but we don't fit in the pop world. We're really bad at being pop stars and walking down red carpets. We've got our own little bubble, which we really like. We've learned to really like that.

  

  Katie White
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Walking

• A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.

  

  Bill Owens
  • People
  • Time
  • Freedom

• I want to see a world in which every entrepreneur has access to the resources he or she needs to succeed, and where through the power of supportive communities - that means you and me - every resource can be made available.

  

  Jessica Jackley
  • She
  • Power
  • Entrepreneur

• Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Art
  • Deep

• I will choose England before any other destination. My dream has always been to play in one of the top two leagues in the world. Newcastle is a good club, and St James's Park is a monumental stadium where there is passionate fans.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • World
  • Good
  • Dream

• We call it EPCOT, spelled E-P-C-O-T: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Here it is in larger scale. EPCOT will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise.

  

  Walt Disney
  • American
  • Free
  • Community

• China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world.

  

  S. R. Nathan
  • World
  • Moving
  • Chinese

• The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people vote to dump freedom every time - the freedom to make your own decisions about health care, education, property rights, and a ton of other stuff.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • People
  • Time
  • Freedom

• In response to criticism of its treatment of killer whales, Sea World said it will build them a larger habitat. When asked for comment, killer whales said, 'Hey, you know what's a larger habitat?' THE OCEAN.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Sea
  • Criticism
  • Ocean

• All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.

  

  John Baldacci
  • People
  • Experience
  • History

• I knew I would be running with so many people watching all over the world because of him. People love Bolt. He has many fans out there because of his great achievements and breaking world records in Olympics. I've done the same and it's a great honour. I'm happy and I'm happy for him.

  

  David Rudisha
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• I feel like we as human beings are trampling all over the natural world, but at the same time, we are totally in its power.

  

  Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
  • Feels
  • Humans
  • Natural

• I have no love for those who consider themselves 'good people' but stand idly by as the world crumbles around them. It's not enough to personally not do damage. If you're present as someone else destroys what's around you and you do nothing, you helped them.

  

  Luvvie Ajayi
  • People
  • Good
  • Present

• We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • World
  • Parents
  • Decision

• Growing up in a suburban home, the world seems so massive to you. It seems like cities are so big and so far away, and there's so much in them. So your imagination runs wild, instead of when you are born in the middle of Manhattan, you'd know, like, that this is the biggest city.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

  

  Alice Eve
  • Real
  • Relationship
  • Poetry

• I was a math whiz who stunk at English, so of course I wanted to be a writer more than anything in the world. I performed impromptu plays for my grandmother's sewing circle but forced my little sister to ask for ketchup at McDonald's.

  

  Alethea Kontis
  • English
  • Sister
  • Grandmother

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