World Quotes

• Anyone who says they don't enjoy the Army is mad - you can spend a week hating it and the next week it could be the best thing in the world and the best job you could ever, ever wish for. It has got so much to offer.

  

  Prince Harry
  • Job
  • Wish
  • Mad

• Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • God
  • Creation
  • Human Rights

• The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Time
  • Live
  • Real

• I think we have to get rid of nuclear weapons. The idea that somehow by having nuclear weapons you make the world a safer place is essentially insane.

  

  Dennis Kucinich
  • World

• I believe we live in a positive sum world and wealth isn't just taken or moved around; it's mostly created.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Taken

• Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Together
  • Vision
  • Color

• It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

  

  Mary Kay Blakely
  • Time
  • God
  • Women

• My biggest hero in the whole world was my dad.

  

  Guy Fieri
  • World
  • Dad
  • Hero

• 'Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know - they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that they might even be remembered/ We all know we die. We all know the world is too big for us to be significant. So all we have is the hope of beign seen, or heard, even for a moment.'

  

  Dave Eggers
  • People
  • Hope
  • Die

• Probably in 2035 we will pass that mantle on to China. It will be the biggest economy in the world, and it will go way past us and way past India. Given the growth, the size, the opportunities, I don't think there's any other place in the world that can match it.

  

  David Rubenstein
  • World
  • Past
  • Growth

• We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

  

  Buddha
  • World
  • Thoughts

• We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Jonathan Hardy. The clever wit and joy he brought to his performance of Rygel was a true gift to the world of Farscape. My sincerest condolences go out to Jonathan's family and to his many fans around the world.

  

  Brian Henson
  • Gift
  • Performance
  • Jonathan Hardy

• And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture and Latino culture, we must recognize that this is a coherent culture, too. I think deafness is a disability for social constructionist reasons.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Thinking
  • Society
  • Culture

• Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?

  

  Kaye Gibbons
  • Important
  • Like
  • Knows

• I do not care if they do not like me," he said. "Maybe then they will let me alone, and I will not have to stay in China." The thought visibly struck him, and his head came up with sudden enthusiasm. "If I were very offensive, do you suppose they would go away now?" he asked. "Laurence, what would be particularly insulting" Hammond looked like Pandora, the box open and horrors loose upon the world. Laurence was inclined to laugh, but he stifled it out of sympathy.

  

  Naomi Novik
  • Care
  • Laughing
  • Horror

• Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a laboratory for everybody.

  

  Donald Barthelme
  • World
  • American
  • War

• I always tell people I'm grateful for my cancer diagnosis because it was the greatest gift because it completely changed my life. I was able to stop and let my whole life and world just crash over me like a wave. And I stood there and went, 'Wow.' And for the first time, I stopped everything. I had to.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • People
  • Cancer
  • Grateful

• I didn't know there was so many people in this world that knew of me.

  

  Patsy Cline
  • People
  • World

• The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.

  

  Big Pun
  • World

• I've lived so frugally for so long. I have to have that financial security or the world feels out of control for me.

  

  DJ Qualls
  • Long
  • Control
  • Financial

• I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the way of its staff. We have fantastic staff. People told me as I was coming into the organization that the greatest asset of the World Bank Group is its staff, and I think there's no question that that's the case.

  

  Jim Yong Kim
  • People
  • Question
  • Organization

• I think sometimes the fashion world isn't even about clothes anymore; it's about this 'in' crowd, and I'm not into that.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Thinking
  • Fashion
  • Sometimes

• If there's one person in the world with whom a chemistry read is unnecessary, it's Rachel McAdams.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • World

• A painting lets us know how somebody literally saw things. A piece of music is another language that transmits a whole wealth of emotion and wordless experience. But writing is special in the way at allows us to temporarily enter another person's world, to step outside the boundaries of our own time and space.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

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