World Quotes
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We set out to change the world.
Angelo Sotira
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The United States will always be a global leader, and we need to actively engage the international community to make sure all citizens of the world live freely and equally under their country's rule of law. We cannot, however, afford to fight other nations' wars interminably or stabilize their regions.
Bill Foster
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Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and ideas of other scientists. The recent studies show that children also learn in these ways.
Alison Gopnik
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It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.
Angus Deaton
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The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must.
Kingsley Amis
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The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.
Andrei Tarkovsky
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My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.
Lucy Walker
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Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.
William Hague
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Every penny I've ever saved has been spent on airline tickets to different corners of the world.
JJ Feild
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
Banksy
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I just love the whole art form of acting, of being in front of a camera and playing different things. Not that I would ever say I'm the greatest actor in the world, but I am capable of playing different kinds of roles that emotionally I could get into.
Andrew Dice Clay
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Information is a business in itself. It is also something that has made control impossible ... you cannot get customers to accept prices in one place when they know there's a better deal elsewhere. It's a whole new world.
Walter Wriston
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That's what's wrong with the people in this world; they believe they can do well by just getting by when they need to aim for the highest.
Keith Anderson
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
Plotinus
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Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses in the world.
Patrick Henry
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Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
Ben Affleck
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Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.
William Cowper
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I was studying International Relations at Columbia when 9/11 happened, and it made me want understand the security dynamics of the world. I had been more focused on soft power issues - understanding different cultures and such - but once 9/11 happened, I felt like I didn't know anything about security problems.
Ellen Gustafson
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We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.
Dave Kellett
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In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world; as to say, 'The world says,' or 'There is a speech abroad.'
Francis Bacon
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What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.
Joseph Barbera
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SUNY gives you a world-class education.
William Baldwin